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+.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.