Well, maybe it was too late last night and I was too desperate to
save something on a USB drive to take to the office today and
then get to bed.
When I logged in this evening, I did a vdir /dev | less and found
/dev/sdb1 was labelled a *directory*! Sheesh! So did I type mkdir
instead of mknod last night? I just don't know.
I logged in as root, deleted the /dev/sdb1 *directory* and re-ran
mknod /dev/sdb1 b 10 1. That created a block device, and now USB
is working fine again. So I just don't know.
The short answer to Neil Sikka's question "just out of curiosity,
how did u get the usb drive to correspond to a devnode that YOU
created?" Is "I don't know." Ben Stern (is he still out there?)
held my hand through creating the device and getting it working.
I poked around on the Internet to find the major & minor device
numbers of 10 and 1. Ben said they were something else on his
system, maybe 18 and 1? Anyway, his numbers don't work here.
Bottom line is that once I ran mknod per Ben's (and the man
page's) instructions, I could mount USB and life, computorially
speaking, anyway, was good.
Thanks for all the suggestions, and sorry for the false alarm.
What do you expect from a music major? <g>
Howard Sanner
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