Hi, I have 12 pieces in my disk, from sda1 to sda12. This is the expected behavior: [root@max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-9] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda9 The following instead seems to me a bug: [root@max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-12] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2 Ls version: ls (GNU coreutils) 8.21 Best Regards, Massimo Masotti