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From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
To: "'andrea'" <andrea.franceschini@linet.it>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Need Help
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:47:58 +0100
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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 


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