did something stupid! Removed /dev HELP!!

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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

[Alex Lavrov.]

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.

[Gopi Sekar]

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

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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

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Recovered files from local filesystem