topic Re: did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!! in Operating System - Linux

did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!!

renarios — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 07:32:39 GMT

Hi All,

I really screwed up this time. By mistake I removed /dev. I still got one open Putty session to the fedora 3 machine, but I just don’t know what to do (with myself).
Any ideas?

Fast response would be really appreciated!

Cheers,

Renarios

Re: did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!!

Alex Lavrov. — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:01:40 GMT

Do you have backup of your system somewhere and you can restore it?

Did you change there stuff? You can install fresh linux box and copy stuff from there.

Beside this, I don't know what else can you do.

Alex.

Re: did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!!

Gopi Sekar — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:04:51 GMT

if you are using RedHat/Fedora,then there is a chance: I believe these distro's are having one RPM package just for setting up /dev/ filesystem (the RPM contains all device files including permission).

I am not able to recall the package name, but if you can search in the distribution's RPM package list then it should be there.

Just Re-install the RPM and your device filesystem should be up and running.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

Re: did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!!

renarios — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:33:59 GMT

Well I'm an unbelieveble .... I had a copy of the dev directory somewhere in /tmp, but i didn't know that at that time. I could not recover from tape, because /dev/snt0 was gone too.
Luckely I could copy all files from /tmp/etc/dev to /dev, but I would sleep well tonight.
I'm leeching fedora4 at the moment, so there's one little advantage in this mess.

Thanks guy for the responses.

Closing now!

Cheers,

Renarios

Re: did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!!

renarios — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:35:08 GMT

Recovered files from local filesystem