Good day:
I have a Maxtor external hard drive on a remote machine at and office in
town. This drive is used to for weekly system backups on Saturday
nights and usually works fine.
This weekend, however, there was a power outage. The UPS gracefully
shutdown and restarted the machine. On restart, the boot messages
indicate that the device was recognized and indicated that it was to be
allocated or created as /dev/sdb with sdb1 and sdb2 being the partitions
on it, but these devices do not actually exist and as such no mount
point can be created and the backup will proceed to fail.
Bearing in mind that this is a remote machine, and that I am unable to
go in and unplug and replug the drive to solve the problem, is there any
way i can rectify this?
I've looked at mknod which i came across in a separate quest re my
TV-Card to manually create the devices, but I don't know the major and
minor parameters that I would have to provide if this were the right way
to go.
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
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