Here's a hypothetical question that I've been toying with. Is it feasible to designate /home as /dev/fd0? How about if the floppy in question is an MS-DOS disk? Here's a scenario where I think this might make sense. You have a public computer lab that people walk into to do work, e.g. Web research or development, OpenOffice word processing, etc. These people want to take their work with them when they leave, both so that they can open their files on other (probably Windows) computers, and so that other people in the lab can't open their files -- not even the sysadmins. So the lab is a network of Linux workstations, each of which has a floppy drive. One of the machines has two floppy drives and runs a special menu-driven program that lets people create accounts in the shared passwd file (writing a username directory to their floppy disk containing basic config files, .login et al.), back up their files to a second floppy, etc. When the user sits down at one of the workstations, she puts her disk into the drive before logging in. The workstation finds her login name in the shared passwd database and finds her files in /home/username, which is /dev/fd0/username. Her Web bookmarks, e-mail address book, and files are all on that floppy, which she takes with her when she leaves and can open on any Windows machine. I know there are inherent limitations to this plan, since 1.4 MB isn't as much space as it used to be, and Windows has trouble with some UNIX file naming conventions and so could inadvertantly screw up the home directory. I'm not actually planning to do it. But I'm curious: could it work? --Ben