Re: Block special device messed up

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/13/2006 05:45 AM, salve@slogedalen.no wrote:
> Some time ago I messed with /dev/hdc, and ended up with this:
>
> root@gamla:~# ls -l /dev/hdc
> total 0
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 22, 0 Aug 25  2005 hdc-
> root@gamla:~# ls -ld /dev/hdc
> drw-rw----  2 root disk 4096 Aug 25  2005 /dev/hdc
> root@gamla:~# file /dev/hdc
> /dev/hdc: directory
>
> Everything has been working allright with a cd-drive attached, 
> but now I have an old hard drive attaced at that second ide cable 
> in the master position, and I'm not able to access it with 
> fdisk, cfdisk or testdisk etc.
> My knowledge on device nodes and the like is close to none, 
> but I understand that /dev/hdc should be a block special device.
>
> What should I do to restore this?

Remove the messed-up hdc and use "mknod" to create a proper 
hdc with major number 22 and minor number 0.

man mknod