Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:24:06 -0800 | | From | walt <> | | Subject | Re: Technical udev question for Greg |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:47:08PM -0800, walt wrote:
>>I acidentally ran 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.
Well, after doing the steps below the size of the db didn't seem any smaller, true enough.
>>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
However, after doing the above and recreating a few missing devices the behavior of the machine seems back to normal, so clearly I did something that mattered. I don't pretend to understand how or why, but thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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