On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: > I was assuming that the partition was being formatted each time Fedora > was re-installed, but if he uses a separate partition for /home, then > that could well be it. Unless you manually partition, and manually add options to do a file system check, the installation routine will do a quick format that doesn't checks anything. The checking will take ages on huge hard drives. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines