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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sgi.com!mr.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Recovering block special file Date: 12 Oct 1996 12:18:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <53o2a6$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <f92fccdc&AARF0No8M2@cuckoo.glas.apc.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nebo@glasnet.ru wrote: > $ls -al /dev/wd0* > > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 65538 Aug 26 02:06 wd0 > crw-r----- 2 root operator 3, 196618 Aug 26 15:54 wd0a > ^ > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 1 Aug 26 02:06 wd0b > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 2 Aug 26 02:06 wd0c > I've noticed "c" flag instead "b" in type definition of the file, maybe > there's a problem? The question is how to restore my original > /dev/wd0a file type "block special file"? This _is_ the problem. cd /dev rm wd0a mknod wd0a b 0 0 (Or use the MAKEDEV script there.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)