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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:40:39 +0100
From:      Adam Nealis <adamn@criterion.canon.co.uk>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /dev/zero
Message-ID:  <35BD9C97.963B3543@csl.com>
References:  <F10DA6C4FB18D211A40A0060977B03BD07AE75@exchange1.stlabs.com>

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Christian Molnar wrote:

> Hello Guys,
>
> Trying to create a hard drive image I deleted /dev/zero.  How do I re-create
> it?

Oops! I'm used to wiping out disk device files myself.

The /dev/ stuff is all in /dev/MAKEFILE

Do

cd /dev
grep "mknod zero" MAKEFILE

and, once you understand what the output means, do

`grep "mknod zero" MAKEFILE`


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