[wplug] Well, now I've gone and done something......

[Michael P. O'Connor]

try chmod 666 /dev/null as root
but with out more information I don't know if this would work or not,
but it just sounds like a permission problem.

If that one does not work you could delete /dev/null and remaking it
with
/bin/mknod /dev/null c 2 2

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 16:22, William N. Powell wrote:
> I apparently have done something to damage the file system(s) on my laptop. The system started reporting that /dev/null was a read-only file system. (I always figured it was write-only!) Prior to that as a normal 
> user, I attempted to redirect stderr to /dev/null to get rid of error messages from the command line.
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> Obviously, I did something more than redirect stderr! I am not worried about what I did then, just how to fix what I have now.
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> Now it boots up to the (repair filesystem) prompt.
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> The laptop is a P133 running RH 8 with 32M of memory.  This is a utility laptop and works pretty good with limited memory for what it is used for, so upgrading the system isn't really on the table.
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> /dev/hda1 is a 500 MB FAT16 partition and used to contain Win 98. I wiped that and just use it for backup info now.
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> /dev/hda2 is about 100 MB ext3. No reference to /dev/hda2 in mtab or fstab.
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> /dev/hda3 is 128 MB SWAP partition.
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> /dev/hda4 is 5 gig ext3 / containing the rest of the system and is mounted currently per /etc/mtab
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> dmesg doesn't show a particular errors, the last two lines are:
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> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
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> nothing in /var/log/messages jumps out at me, but all stderr output may have gone to /dev/null or other non-recoverable ether devices.
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> My home directory is intact and appears undamaged.
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> I guess my next step is to get a bootable floppy rescue disk so that I can do a full fsck on /dev/hda4 when it is not mounted.
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> What is the best was to proceed from this point?
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> Bill
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