Are you using Linux by any chance and /dev/sda1 is the root partition?
Try using / instead of sda1 in that case. 

Bernhard

[...]
> selfcheck: checking disk sda3
> selfcheck: device /dev/sda3
> selfcheck: OK
> selfcheck: checking disk sda1
> selfcheck: device sda1
> selfcheck: could not access sda1 (sda1): No such file or directory
> selfcheck: pid 13892 finish time Wed Mar 19 16:30:57 2003
> 
> 
> Why is this?  /dev/sda1 has the same permissions as all the others.  Why
> isn't the client applying the correct prefix?
> 
> I really need to fully back this guy up tonight, as we are doing
> upgrades tomorrow.  :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
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