.TH UDEVSTART 8 "March 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
.SH NAME
udevstart \- populate initial device directory
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B udevstart
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B udevstart
walks trough the sysfs device tree and calls
.B udev
to create the nodes for every valid device found. It can be used to fill a
empty device directory with nodes for all devices currently available on
the system.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR udev (8)
.SH AUTHORS
.B udevstart
was developed primarily by Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>, with much help
from others.