site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On May 6, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Erich Ocean wrote: The volume for "dev" cannot be found. Thanks in advance, Regards.....Peter _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... I've got a missing volume (named 'dev') in my root directory, that I can't delete in the Finder. Attempting to delete it from the command line is folly, since it's the "dev" directory. The Finder thinks it's an alias, and it gives the following error message when I click on it: Insert the volume for "dev" and wait for it to appear on the desktop, then try again. [OK] Any ideas on how I can get rid of this thing? It doesn't show up when I ls -l from my root directory, only the normal dev directory shows up. Erich "dev" is special and is managed by the kernel. On some *nix systems you can do command-line stuff in there but not on Mac OS X, even as root. It says that you have rwx access but that's not been my experience (which I regard as "good", just in case someone gets an idea that I'd like to change it) But it sounds as though there's a rogue entry somewhere. My suggestion would be to boot from another drive so that your regular volume is not the boot volume. It won't then get the special "dev" treatment which applies to the boot volume only. You should then be able to deal with the rogue using regular tools. But be careful. making a mistake with dev can spoil your whole day, and more. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com