Rennie wrote: | [root at MDK /]# ls -ld /dev | drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/ [...] | ???!?!?? What is going on here? Is this telling me /dev is 0 bytes on this | partition? :-\ Probably you're using devfs so your /dev doesn't live as files on a real disc, but as a magic bit of code somewhere inside your kernel. Cameron.