# especially for Ubuntu 14.04 the udevd does not create the SCSI devices under /dev [[ ! -x /bin/MAKEDEV ]] && return cd /dev # check the devices seen in /sys/block ls /sys/block | grep -v -e loop -e ram | while read DEV do # DEV can be sda, sr, ... DEV=$( echo $DEV | tr -s -d '[:digit:]' '' ) # remove digits [[ -b $DEV ]] && continue echo "MAKEDEV $DEV" MAKEDEV $DEV done cd /