is it really necesary to do fsck on reboot? I was reading man fstab and noticed that the last entry concerned that. I was thinking that to prolong the life of my diskdrives I would have them run as little as possible and I would change the 1 to a zero. (see 1) /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/sda1 none swap defaults 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 rw,users,noatime,errors=remount-ro,exec 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 rw,users,noatime,errors=remount-ro,exec 0 0 # Modified by mike /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat users,noatime,ro 0 0 # Added by Mike none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noatime 0 0 # Added by Mike /dev/sdb /mnt/flash vfat,users,noatime,exec 0 0 /\ I'm still working on the proper entry for the flash card -- <:-)~MIKE~(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spam or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blocked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE with every account. http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net