Hi Peter,
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 09:09:17PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
| [Thu Nov 17 21:00:39] peter@skapet:~$ doas ls -lS /dev/ | head
| total 2301984
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1178386432 Oct 27 2015 sd0
| -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11584 Nov 17 07:36 MAKEDEV
| dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Nov 17 18:01 fd
| lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Aug 1 2014 audioctl -> audioctl0
| lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Aug 1 2014 audio -> audio0
| lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Aug 1 2014 mixer -> mixer0
| lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Aug 1 2014 radio -> radio0
| lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Aug 1 2014 sound -> sound0
| lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 Aug 1 2014 video -> video0
| [Thu Nov 17 21:00:49] peter@skapet:~$
|
| and
|
| [Thu Nov 17 21:01:34] peter@skapet:~$ file /dev/sd0
| /dev/sd0: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'Ubuntu 15.10 amd64 '
(bootable) x86 boot sector; partition 2: ID=0xef, starthead 254, startsector
2279532, 4544 sectors
|
| so a device had indeed been replaced by a regular file.
No, the /dev/sd0 device doesn't exist anywhere. If you want the full
device, use /dev/sd0c.
No, I never had that happen to one of my machines .. why do you ask?
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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