"A month of sundays ago Kai Chen wrote:" > nbd-server 1099 /dev/sdo11 -i nbd > > where /dev/sdo11 is a full partition which I created for /dev/sdo using > fdisk. Does the special device file (/dev/sdo11) exist? > Unless somehow the system thinks /dev/sdo11 is a file... It doesn't think anything. It is not a file if it is not a file. What is it? Show me. Peter