can't find /dev/sda1

[Paul Sutton]

Hi

This worked fine yesterday by the way,  to day I tried to mount my 
camera (digital) on /dev/sda1 /media/camera,  the software informs me 
that /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device,  doing ls -l /dev/sd* 
confirmed oddly that /dev/sda1 has vanished,

I need to create a new one, but don't understand the major minor bit of 
the command

mknod --help

so far I have mknod /dev/sda1 b
where b is the block device,

I have tried googling, and have looked in my debian bible, and unix for 
dummies which I have out of the local library,  Problem with using 
google is that I not 100% sure what I am googling for,  I know what I 
want to do,  but doing a search on "creating /dev/sda1 device) is not 
coming up with much.

more of concern is just how this file has vanished.

Having attempted to fix this, or at least made an attempt to look things 
up I would be grateful for any help

Thanks

Paul

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