On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 00:16, George Toft wrote: > I trashed every floppy I removed without umounting first. > I love reliability!!! Many floppy drives weren't designed to 100% specs and don't flush their buffers when disks are removed. You can use 'fdflush' on most systems to force a buffer flush. Unmounting is still always a good idea. :) -- Blake Barnett (bdb) Sr. Unix Administrator DevelopOnline.com office: 480-377-6816 Learning is a skill, you get better at it with practice.