Accidently deleted /dev/hdb

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:12, D.E. Chadbourne wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:29, Bob Keyes wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 robertlaferla at comcast.net wrote:
> > 
> > > I accidently deleted /dev/hdb on my Fedora Core 1 system.  How can I recover it?
> > 
> > you mean you did 'rm /dev/hdb' ?
> > 
> > If that's the case, it maybe be as simple as using mknod. Does fedora use
> > devfs or not?
> 
> hi.  i'm using fedora.  hope this helps.
> 
> [eric at mathPlayPen eric]$ locate mknod
> /usr/share/man/man1/mknod.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man2/mknod.2.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/vgmknodes.8.gz
> /bin/mknod
> /sbin/vgmknodes
> [eric at mathPlayPen eric]$
> 
> 
> so what should he do?

Generally changing to /dev and running "./MAKEDEV hdb" should do it.