Am I a Bonehead or what? (# rm /dev)

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:

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> Well, I boot a rescue disc, and copy off what was the original
> real / onto another disc, and then start to ponder. I need help!
> 

[...]

> # cd /media/hda5
> # mv dev dev_save
> # rsync -a /dev .
> # shutdown -r now
> 
> System now boots and runs. Mailer works fine.
> 
> Phew! Dodged a bullet!
> 
> Anything else I need to do?

I can't mount my external USB drive. My fstab entries are

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sde1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,exec 0 0

Neither one of them will mount.

$ mount /dev/sda1
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

Same error for the other one. What am I missing?

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