From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 02:44:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA09751 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (cruella.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA09736 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:44:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@criterion.canon.co.uk) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00159 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:38:55 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35BD9C97.963B3543@csl.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:40:39 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: /dev/zero References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christian Molnar wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Trying to create a hard drive image I deleted /dev/zero. How do I re-create > it? Oops! I'm used to wiping out disk device files myself. The /dev/ stuff is all in /dev/MAKEFILE Do cd /dev grep "mknod zero" MAKEFILE and, once you understand what the output means, do `grep "mknod zero" MAKEFILE` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message