Re: Technical udev question for Greg

[walt]

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.
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