On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:05:26AM +0100, Peter Nuttall wrote: > /dev is supposted to be worthwhile if you use usb or firewire but the old > system is just fine for any thing else. afaik devfs has been officially deprecated the replacement for it is called udev[0]. Chris [0] - http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.3/0495.html