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/dev/dvd missing

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Swapped a CD unit with a DVD unit on my 2 machines and now have lost /dev/dvd
I read somewhere that this is created at installation of Ubuntu.
How do I get it back?

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#1

     One way to do it is the MAKEDEV command, but not sure if that is the best way, so will leave this open for other advice. Or you can research it & try it. It's all in capital letters as shown.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#2

No success with that :-

peter@peter-desktop:~$ cd /dev
peter@peter-desktop:/dev$ /sbin/./MAKEDEV -n update dvd
.udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
peter@peter-desktop:/dev$

but

growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video /home/peter/temp

seems to work . Thanks Larry

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#3

Hi again Larry
I did need /dev/dvd to record at a lower speed so tried swapping the CD unit with the DVD unit to their original machines and 9.04 restored the /dev/dvd file. It is strange that 8.04 on my older machine would not do that.