Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
Sorry, but I have to ask, what was your n00b mistake? I don't want to
do the same....
::sigh:: Okay, here we go.
/dev is full of device nodes that I'll never have, like ESDI drives, fd1
and all those pty/tty's that I had long since taken out of the kernel.
So I thought I'd delete everything in /dev (booted from the LiveCD so
udev wasn't up), shut off the udev tarball and then let udev recreate
only what I had from sysfs. I had over 1300 items inside /dev and it
was impossible to easily browse or ls it, so it seemed like a good idea
at the time. Now I realize that maybe I should have been more selective
instead of "rm -rf"ing the whole folder.
Well, that's what NOT to do. Please keep the flames to a minimum.
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Colin
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