On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, gslink wrote: > There is a bug related to this in FC3. If you are root and change > group membership from root to something else and then give rw and > execute permission to everyone and the directory is a partition then > the directory will usually appear empty. If you write anything into > that directory before rebooting then the directory is messed up. > If you reboot first no harm is done. Is this what happened? hmmm ... is there a bugzilla entry for this that you can point at? rday