I see the problem. Major and minor block numbers are supposed to be one byte each. Someone has crafted a special system image using OpenVZ where the major and minor block numbers are much larger (see ploop devices above). I'm not sure what the final fix may be, but a quick fix for your case would be to remove the lines 95-97 in path.py. if self.type in ("chr", "blk"): self.devnums = (os.major(self.stat.st_rdev), os.minor(self.stat.st_rdev)) Or just comment them if you feel so inclined ('#' at the front of the line). On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Andreas