Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:47:50 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Technical udev question for Greg
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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
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