Replacement motherboard, renumbered NICs and dvd drives?

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Wed 27 Feb 2008 19:05:22 NoOp wrote:
> On 02/27/2008 08:09 AM, Adam Funk wrote:
> > On 2008-02-25, NoOp wrote:
> 
> >> You can safely edit and/or delete in
> >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> > 
> > Since udev automatically adds things to the 70-persistent-cd.rules and
> > 70-persistent-net.rules files, could I just delete all the entries and
> > let it automatically re-introduce the current devices with the
> > "zeroth" names (eth0, cdrom, dvdrw, etc.)?
> > 
> > Would I need to restart udev or otherwise nudge it?
> > 
> 
> No. If you delete all they do not get regenerated (at least in net.rules):
> 

Sure they do. Quoting from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:

# Entries are automatically added by the 75-persistent-net-generator.rules
# file; however you are also free to add your own entries.

Adam, you can simply delete all entries, and restart udev.

regards
FF