I guess it can be summed up into two questions : - Is there a need for a group to have write access to disks? - Is there a need for a group to have read only access to disks? If the answers are no and yes respectively, then the change makes sense. Seems to me like it does dump-wise. And I can't find any case where someone other than root would need raw write access to a disk device. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 2.91 (FC3 Test 2) - Linux kernel 2.6.8-1.521.dell Load : 0.72 0.59 0.36