I just noticed an apparent randomness to the reported size of these files. what does this mean ? -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 in6_min -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 in6_status -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:14 in7_input -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 20 12:27 in7_max -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 20 12:27 in7_min -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 in7_status -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:14 in8_input -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 20 12:27 in8_max -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 20 12:27 in8_min -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 in8_status -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:14 in9_input -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 20 12:27 in9_max -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 20 12:27 in9_min -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 in9_status -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:14 name drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 20 12:13 power/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 temp1_crit -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:14 temp1_input -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 temp1_max -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 temp1_min -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 20 12:27 temp1_status -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/