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Accidentally Deleted /dev/zero

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Hello

I accidentally deleted /dev/zero on CentOS 6, the system is still running but I don't know if this will cause problems?

If yes how I can fix it?

Thanks:)

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  • rds100rds100 Member

    mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
    chmod 666 /dev/zero

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  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    time to upgrade to /dev/one ?

    :-)

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  • nixcomnixcom Member

    You cannot begin a command by rm -rf /dev by accident... ;)

  • BogdacutuuBogdacutuu Member

    @nixcom said:
    You cannot begin a command by rm -rf /dev by accident... ;)

    yes you can :)

  • nixcomnixcom Member

    @Bogdacutuu said:
    yes you can :)

    By accident? No way. ;)

  • zhuanyizhuanyi Member

    Just curious, why do Linux needs things like /dev/zero and /dev/null to run? As far as I know it is just a file with...0s?

  • BogdacutuuBogdacutuu Member

    @zhuanyi said:
    Just curious, why do Linux needs things like /dev/zero and /dev/null to run? As far as I know it is just a file with...0s?

    you can send stuff to /dev/null to make it disappear

  • zhuanyizhuanyi Member

    @Bogdacutuu said:
    you can send stuff to /dev/null to make it disappear

    Yes, that I understand but why the OS themselves would need those two? As far as I know if you don't have /dev/null you can't really boot up Ubuntu/Debian.

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