From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Technical udev question for Greg
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:47:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103214750.GB11061@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF72A4C.2040404@myrealbox.com>
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:47:08PM -0800, walt wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I think I acidentally screwed up by running a script which ran MAKEDEV
> while udev was running.
>
> Now /dev/.udev.tdb is very large and devices have strange permissions
> they didn't have before.
As udev didn't get called when runinng MAKEDEV, I don't see how the udev
database could have grown.
> All I want to do is delete all the extraneous devices in .udev.tdb
> and start over. How do I do that?
rm -rf /dev/*
rm -f /dev/.udev.tdb
/etc/init.d/udev start
That should do it.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-03 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 20:47 Technical udev question for Greg walt
2004-01-03 21:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-04 0:24 ` walt
2004-01-04 0:59 ` Martin Schlemmer
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