Greetings, I have an USB stick which I could mount flawlessly with the command: mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive/ today (after testing and then removing a SCSI scanner) the same command returns: special device /dev/sda1 does not exis and sure enough that device file is no more in the /dev/ directory! Now: 1) what could have happened? Kudzu messing around? I don't remember doing anything myself that could have canceled device files 2) What now? Do I have to reinstall the same version of the dev RPM (with which options?) or there is a simpler solution? TIA, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives -- Abba Eban -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list