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speng

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Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 136

I accidentally altered /dev/null

Right, so I accidentally altered /dev/null using dd (mixed up if and of).

Is there any way of fixing it?

dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: I accidentally altered /dev/null

man 4 null

This says to create /dev/null do :

mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
chown root:root /dev/null

If you still have /dev/null but it's just messed up, you may have t delete it first ?

speng

Member

Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 136

Re: I accidentally altered /dev/null

man 4 null

This says to create /dev/null do :

mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
chown root:root /dev/null

If you still have /dev/null but it's just messed up, you may have t delete it first ?

I did that and it worked great, thanks.