On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:47 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > You are talking about /etc/fstab and it has NOTHING to do with file > systems. Fstab is used to connect whole partitions to a main part. Clue-by-four: File System TABle Second whacking: man fstab NAME fstab - static information about the filesystems SYNOPSIS #include <fstab.h> DESCRIPTION The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems... -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.