On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Catchy Subject? > > <rant emotion="annoyed" sanity="atrisk"> > > Yes I hate udev because if my server is rebooted and the tape drive > isn't switched on then the entries in /dev/ such as nst0 don't get > created. Then my backup fails or worse the disk is completely full > because writing to /dev/nst0 when the device file doesn't exist creates > a data file on the disk which grows to be bigger than the /dev > partition. I don't want to reboot my server right now but I'd love to be > able to do a backup. Is there a sane way to tell udev to create the > entries for the device without rebooting?
1) Turning on your tape drive should create the dev entries 2) Make your backups just a tiny bit cleverer eg RFMd on bash and test -b file True if file exists and is a block special file. -c file True if file exists and is a character special file. if [ -c /dev/nst0 ]; then do the backup else echo 'Turn on the power, Luke' fi also lsmod and modprobe are your friends James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
