can't find /dev/sda1

[Ian Zimmerman]

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

Paul> mknod --help

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

A safer way should be

# cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV sda1

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