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Operating Systems SCO Overwritten /dev/root -recovery of SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 Post 302182964 by ok2 on Tuesday 8th of April 2008 01:48:37 AM
Old 04-08-2008
Overwritten /dev/root -recovery of SCO OpenServer 5.0.4
Due to my own stupidity I managed to overwrite my /dev/root device using dd (don't ask).

Current state is
- Have current backup created using cpio (command used was 'find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -ocB > $TAPE')

- Once I realised what was happening powered off the server but this was too late

- Have a set of boot floppies and have booted off them

- Have mounted /dev/hd0root and run fsck so it is "fixed"

- It is pretty empty (no surprise) but does have unix and unix.old, /etc only has default in it

- The emergency floppies are old and /dev/Stp0 doesn't point to the tape drive we use for backup (DAT)

What I need to work out is how to restore /dev/root from the backup.

Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

dev

dev(7FS)							   File Systems 							  dev(7FS)

NAME

       dev - Device name file system

DESCRIPTION

       The  dev  filesystem  manages  the  name  spaces  of devices under the Solaris operating environment. The global zone's instance of the dev
       filesystem is mounted during boot on /dev.

       A subdirectory under /dev may have unique operational semantics. Most of the common device names under /dev are	created  automatically	by
       devfsadm(1M).   Others,	such  as  /dev/pts,  are dynamic and reflect the operational state of the system. You can manually generate device
       names for newly attached hardware by invoking devfsadm(1M) or implicitly, by indirectly causing	a  lookup  or  readdir	operation  in  the
       filesystem to occur.  For example, you can discover a disk that was attached when the system was powered down (and generate a name for that
       device) by invoking format(1M)).

FILES

       /dev    Mount point for the /dev filesystem in the global zone.

SEE ALSO

       devfsadm(1M), format(1M), devfs(7FS)

NOTES

       The global /dev instance cannot be unmounted.

SunOS 5.11							    9 June 2006 							  dev(7FS)
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