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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Recovering block special file
Date: 13 Oct 1996 16:45:17 GMT
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In article <f92fccdc&AARF0No8M2@cuckoo.glas.apc.org>,
nebo@glasnet.ru writes:
> From: nebo@glasnet.ru (Vlad D. Nebolsin)
>
> Hello,
>
> after huge crash when I have tried to mount dos partition over 512Mb on
> FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, my /dev/wd0a file was corrupted and now I cannot
> boot from my first disk (wd0a is my root patrition):
>
> $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
> ^
[.....]
> The question is how to restore my original
> /dev/wd0a file type "block special file"?
you can
cd /dev
sh ./MAKEDEV std
But you may have other problems after this sort of crash ! Nasty !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....