Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ILUG-BOM]Missing special device file /dev/fd0

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