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

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Aug 29 02:23:13 UTC 2008


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>> [deleted /dev]
>>>
>> What version of Fedora? With any version with udev, there is the
>> device file system mounted on /dev once the system is booted, so as
>> long as the /dev/directory is there, the device entries should be
> 
> /dev/MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV
> 
> which does not exist.

Re-install it from its RPM.  On F9 and F*, its called MAKEDEV.  The 
particular version for FC2 that I can find is MAKEDEV-3.3.13-1
Install it, and you should be able to run it.

> Mike


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