Czerno wrote: > Where did the cryptic numbers in the "mknod" command as > given by Sindi come from ? ls -l /dev/hdb* brwxr-x--x 1 root root 3, 65 .. /dev/hdb1 (etc.) Therefore mknod /dev/hdb5 b 3 69 (etc.) I extrapolated from the numbers for hdb1-4. Sindi