Rahul, My understanding was that udev wouldn't effect any existing hotplugging in FC2 but just create the /udev directory. Since the latest kernel seems to have broken the hotplugging of USB memory keys, I planned on installing the udev rpm under FC2 and then creating /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules with the following rule for my Lexar JumpDrive secure... BUS="USB", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE SECURE", KERNEL="sd*1", NAME="lexar-jd-usb" ...coupled with an fstab entry of... /dev/lexar-jd-usb /mnt/lexar auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 ...to allow the Computer folder in the Gnome desktop to have a mountable device entry again when the Lexar usb key is inserted. My only concern is that installation of udev won't disturb the existing /dev directory in FC2 (without additional entries into /etc/udev). While I could upgrade to FC3, according to Infoworld... http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/14/Hnredhatupdate_1.html ...we are only a month away from RHEL4's release so I'll probably wait for that. In the meanwhile I am hoping udev can get me back my Desktop memory key access. Jack