cciss problems

[Barry Brimer]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Neill Flynn wrote:

>
> Hi admins,
>
> I am having a strange problem, basically I rebooted my RH9 Linux box
> (HPDL360) and lost one partition. The machine failed to come up as it
> was unable to mount the /export partition. I tried to FSCK it and had no
> luck. Basically the /export partition was mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p5,
> this device is not in /dev/cciss/c0d0p5.
>
> ls -al /dev/cciss/c0d0*
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p4
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   6 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p6
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   7 Jun 24  2004

As indicated by your output above, your device file is gone.  It can be 
recreated with the following:
=====================================================
Log in as root
cd /dev/cciss
mknod c0d0p5 -m 660 b 104 5 ; chgrp disk c0d0p5
=====================================================

Hope this helps,
Barry