Run "mount". Hopefully you will see "/dev/hda? on / type ext3 (rw)" - the rw in brackets means the filesystem is mounted read/write. Not sure what else to suggest here..... Cheers, Ben [Timothy A. Holmes] [root@srvweb-02 bin]# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) 192.168.0.5:/home on /home type nfs (rw,nosuid,hard,addr=192.168.0.5) [root@srvweb-02 bin]# It appears to be set that way TIM