How to reload udev rules after nixos rebuild switch?

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How to reload new rules added to services.udev.extraRules without rebooting? I tried systemctl start systemd-udevd and udevadm control --reload with no luck

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If you change extraRules the service systemd-udev (which does the reload command) should have been restated after running nixos rebuild switch, so no need to do that manually. Also that command is correct.

So, If you think the new rule is not working it’s probably not correct.
To debug properly you’d rather put udev into debugging mode

udevadm control --log-priority=debug

then you can look at the log with

journalctl -u systemd-udevd.service -f

Also, to manually trigger the rule you can do something like:

udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=change
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My bad, I used “nixos-rebuild reboot” while thinking I was using “nixos-rebuild switch”. Thank you very much.