/dev/ files

[James Odak]

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

[Francois Bariselle_3]

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

see:

man insf

Frank

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

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

[James Odak]

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


Jim

[Michael Elleby III_1]

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

[Michael Elleby III_1]

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