Op dinsdag 21 juni 2005 19:37, schreef Colin: > 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. > > -- > Colin
Actually I have done the same after reading a news post somewhere else to test
udev. I did an rm -rf /dev/* and then udevstart. No problems here and all the
devices came nicely back up. Gotta love udev :)
Jan
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