topic Re: /dev/ files in Operating System - HP-UX

/dev/ files

James Odak — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:35:55 GMT

i know there is a command that restores your device files (/dev/vg00/*) that sort of info should "someone" acidently delete them
i can not for the life of me remember what it is
any help?

Jim

Re: /dev/ files

Francois Bariselle_3 — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:39:29 GMT

Try to recreate all device file in /dev/vg00/* with te command insf.

see:

man insf

Frank

Re: /dev/ files

Helen French — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:40:00 GMT

Hi,

If you are talking about recreating special files in /dev, it is:

# insf -e

This will check for all hardwares in the system and will create device special files for them. It will not create any files related to LVM ( /dev/vgxx/...). For this you either have to 'vgimport' or do it manually (lvcreate).

HTH,
Shiju

Re: /dev/ files

James Odak — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:43:43 GMT

yeah thats it ...dang hard one to remember
thanks

Jim

Re: /dev/ files

Michael Elleby III_1 — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:45:30 GMT

James-

The mksf command usually works for me... what I usually do is issue a "mksf -H #" (without the quotation marks of course)

The "-H #" indicates the hardware path to the device that I am trying to replace the device files for..I would do it this way since you probably already have the device driver in the kernel..

Review the man pages for the more options..

Mike

Re: /dev/ files

Michael Elleby III_1 — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:46:57 GMT

James, ignore my answer, I should have had your message in front of me while I was typing my answer..

I was making a reference to the same problem I had but with files for some disks I had in a jamaica box.

Mike