On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:54:14 +1100
Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> switched on then the entries in /dev/ such as nst0 don't get 
> created. Then my backup fails or worse the disk is completely full 
> because writing to /dev/nst0 when the device file doesn't exist creates 
> a data file on the disk which grows to be bigger than the /dev 
> partition. I don't want to reboot my server right now but I'd love to be 
> able to do a backup. Is there a sane way to tell udev to create the 
> entries for the device without rebooting?

I think you can create the device files in /etc/udev/devices and they'll
be copied there on bootup. This works on FC4 at least.


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