**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, The Linuxer wrote: > # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy > Now suddenly, I don't know what happened, the bash shell says the device > file is missing. umm.. this shud not happen at random > Although it works perfectly okay, I am still intrigued by what happened. Is me too. Block devices are critical. Check permissions of other devices in /dev Is there any chance some user might hav delelted the entry? > there any way of "recreating" the special device file /dev/fd0 ? Please yep try this by becoming root: #cd /dev #mknod fd0 b 2 0 give appropriate permissions by using chmod,chown See Also: man mknod http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/ or devices.txt in ur kernel source/Documentation Nikhil -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
