/dev/fd0, I screwed it up.... please help

[Grant]

Hi there,

I was having problems copying files from my floppy, and in a fit of rage I did this-

rm /dev/fd0

ooops..

How do I get this back? I was trying to unmount it and it wouldn't so I got a little upset and stupid :)

Any help that you can offer would be great!

Thanks a lot.

Grant

[§ilhouette]

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

you might need to be root.

[Grant]

Thanks,

but when I run that (as root) I get-

mount: speciald device /dev/fd0 does not exist

Any ideas?

Thanks again

Grant

[DMR]

*Ouch!*

Look in /dev; if you find a program called MAKEDEV there, you're in luck. Running it will restore the floppy device settings.
If you don't find it in dev, do "find / -name MAKEDEV"; it might live in another directory.

[ 15 March 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]

[Molecule Man]

I thought it was:
mknod /dev/fd0
but then I might be thinking of something else. This does illustrate why being root all the time is bad though. :rolleyes:

[Grant]

I am sorry to ask so many questions, but I did find MAKEDEV* in the /dev directory but I can't seem to figure out how to run it.

I have tried everything I can think of but no go.

What would the command line be?

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the help.

[MBMarduk]

Did you read the manpage for it if it exists?
(Think not...)

Otherwise try MAKEDEV --help or -h or -?

[Grant]

Yes actually I did, thanks for asking.

The --help doesn't give you any info at all. The man pages do give you more info, but I am a complete newbie (hence the reason I am at linuxnewbie.org).

I have tried ./MAKEDEV fd0
./MAKEDEV fd0H1440

I am missing something.

When I run ./MAKEDEV fd0
I get a message that says -
don't know how to make device "fd0"

I tried to run the mknod command and that didn't work either. I am reading the info mknod file right now, the man and --help didn't make any sense to me.

[Grant]

I think that mknod is the way to go (not that I know anything), but it is looking for more information than I can give it.

It appears that the command line would be-

mknod /dev/fd0 b
but it says major and minor device numbers must be specified

Any ideas on this?

Thanks for your help guys

Grant

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines"

[§ilhouette]

Both MAKEDEV and mknod will do the same thing. MAKEDEV is a little easier, since it's a script that will create the devices for you. If I issue a ls -l /dev/fd0 on my machine, it gives me 2,0 So, the major number is 2 and the minor number is 0. The major number tells it what type the device is, and the minor number tells what instance it is. In /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt it lists all of the different types of devices...but you'd only need to go there if you are very into hardware, or just wanted to pretend you were. :)

So, getting back to your problem, if you issue (as root) a 'MAKEDEV -v fd0<Enter>' it should automatically create all the standard floppy devices. If you wanted to take a stab at mknod, you should be able to say 'mknod fd0 b 2 0 <Enter>'

HTH

[Grant]

THANKS!

the MAKEDEV still didn't work, but the -
mknod command did!

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your help!