Hello, Earlier, I mounted 3.5" floppies by just giving the command # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy Now suddenly, I don't know what happened, the bash shell says the device file is missing. As an alternative, what I did is that I changed the entry in /etc/fstab & named the floppy device file to /dev/fd0H1440. Now I mount floppies by using the command # mount /dev/fd0H1440 /floppy Although it works perfectly okay, I am still intrigued by what happened. Is there any way of "recreating" the special device file /dev/fd0 ? Please enlighten .... Thanx in advance.
Bhaskar Ghose [The Linuxer]
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, The Linuxer wrote:
# mount /dev/fd0 /floppy Now suddenly, I don't know what happened, the bash shell says the device file is missing.
umm.. this shud not happen at random
Although it works perfectly okay, I am still intrigued by what happened. Is
me too. Block devices are critical. Check permissions of other devices in /dev Is there any chance some user might hav delelted the entry?
there any way of "recreating" the special device file /dev/fd0 ? Please
yep
try this by becoming root:
#cd /dev #mknod fd0 b 2 0
give appropriate permissions by using chmod,chown
See Also: man mknod
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/ or devices.txt in ur kernel source/Documentation
Nikhil
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