Re: how to recovry /dev/null

Bill Marcum wrote:
On 2008-02-17, Måns Rullgård <mans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

God bless my carelessness and your kind hearted
The Documentation/devices.txt
Where is that?
In the Linux kernel source tree.

If you have installed a kernel source package. On Debian-based systems you can also install the kernel documentation as a package. The documentation will be in /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-<version>.
By the way you can use the command MAKEDEV (yes, it's in caps) to recreate devices without knowing the major and minor numbers.


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