From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 06:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07271 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 06:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.celwave.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07265 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 06:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr) From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP.9.9.9) with ESMTP id NAA25980; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:57:14 +0200 Received: from aifhs1.alcatel.fr (aifhs1.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.86]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id NAA20198; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:44:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aifhs1.alcatel.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05683; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:47:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id NAA20136; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:44:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08802; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:49:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16176; Tue, 28 Jul 98 13:38:19 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA098365614; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:33:34 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 98 13:33:22 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <35BD9C97.963B3543@csl.com> Subject: Re: /dev/zero Mime-Version: 1.0 To: adamn@criterion.canon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG replace MAKEFILE by MAKEDEV > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message