Thanks, made a mental: Never rm -rf /dev ;) 2005/6/21, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
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