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#! rnews 1132 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news2.interlog.com!winternet.com!visi.com!usenet From: "Bigfoot (Guy Gustavson)" <bigfoot@visi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Blew my /dev directory away, so now what? Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:35:49 -0600 Organization: Vector Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3123B545.4D54@visi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp21.visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0GoldB1 (Win95; I) The other night I was trying to biult the snp device so I could use watch. I did a ./MAKEDEV * in the /dev directory and it blew away my device tables completely. (Either that or the machine over heated and looked up.) What I want to know is... 1. Did I do this to myself with the command I ran? 2. Could I have saved the installation without reinstalling? If so, how? -- "It's not my god damned planet, understand monkey boy! - B. Bonzai"