Haven't seen a fsck happen for quite some time on my ext3 and FAT HDD's and I was toying with the idea of running fsck after logging into a terminal (CTRL-ALT-F2) whilst X is running but not signed on in F7. Reading the man page got me to thinking I should run the command: fsck -As to check through all the fs, but I see later ton that if nothing is specified fsck will walk through the fstab file anyway. As I want the root fs checked as well I didn't want to use the -R option either. Great, I thought, and logged into a terminal as root....... Ran: ~ # fsck and immediately stopped it, by answering n to the question about fscking mounted drives. How can I issue a single command to unmount all the entries in fstab and perform the fsck on them whilst needing the fsck binary from ~/ ? Can the fsck binary still be reached if the filesystem is still mounted? I would assume not as you can't access a floppy disk unless the drive has been mounted. What would happen if I unmounted all but the root filesystem, so that I still had access tho the binary, and then told fsck to run fsck over the mounted root directory? Below is a copy of my /etc/fstab as I would like to edit it so that fsck are performed whenever I restart the machine. With my little experience of ext3 I should not have to wait too long before the login is available. Will the commented out(#) partitions also get fscked? /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb9 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 #/dev/hdc2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 #/dev/hdc7 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 #/dev/hdc9 /data3 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdd1 /data4 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb10 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb7 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc1 /windows/C vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc5 /windows/D vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc6 /windows/E vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap pri=42 0 0 #/dev/hdc8 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 TIA -- The Little Helper needing some help ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================