Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:47:58 +0100 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: "'andrea'" <andrea.franceschini@linet.it>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Need Help Message-ID: <97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D097536@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at>
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> HI > > I have a trouble with FreeBSD 2.1.5 [ML] 2.1.5 is hardly current (it used to be, some years ago :) > After a mistyped rm :( when i try some commands like ps or netstat i > got > this message: [ML] Careful with those thumbs when you run as root :) > ps: /dev/drum: No such file or directory [ML] An obsolete device (would have to take a look at 2.1.5 sources to be able to tell you what it was. IIRC, it used to be swap in Version7 days) > What does it mean ? [ML] That means that most probably all your device nodes are gone, and that you should cd /dev ./MAKEDEV in order to try to recreate them. Beware, most probably this will not help very much because who knows what else did you delete -- was it perchance a rm -rf * in / ? > How can i fix it? [ML] Reinstall is really your only option. Followed by the restore so that you get back all the user files. You do make backups, don't you? > The system still run .. for the moment..(sob). [ML] But will probably fail to reboot. It might manage to mount /, but the other partitions are most probably unreachable. > Please Help!! [ML] Don't run as root. And be very careful when you do. [ML] /Marino > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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