On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:21 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > Since I wanted the mount to appear on my desktop, I omitted the nodev > option. Unless things have changed, that's not what the "nodev" option means. It means that that devices cannot be created there. It's used as a security measure in a similar way that "noexec" can be used (making it harder to run executable files from that mount point. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. ________________________________________________________________ It should go without saying, but RTFM!