Hello, I have FC3 installed and notice that, although FC3 mounts a cdrom when inserted into my cdrom reader/writer, it complains when I try to eject it : eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc' [jfl@ws8 ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Dec 1 19:28 /dev/hdc So I have changed the permissions : [jfl@ws8 ~]$ ls -l /dev/hdc brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 0 Dec 1 19:28 /dev/hdc and now things seem to work. Yet I have read that the /dev directory is now dynamically populated, somehow. Under what conditions is the /dev directory dynamically populated? Will I have to reset permissions in the future? Thanks for any light you might shed on this phenomenon. -- John Francis Lee 1/9-10 Thanon Trairat Muang Chiang Rai 57000 Thailand