Hi, Apologies if this is not the correct list (the general list appears to be jammed with spam). I'm running a 64bit Suse 10 install dual booting with W*ndows XP on a dell with a SATA hard-drive. After a long time of successful running I rebooted to a forced fsck check which hung the machine (with no output from fsck at all). I was only able to recover by booting in recovery mode and running fsck. Fsck found no errors but simply updated the last check time so that the check at boot time was no longer required. I think the problem may be SATA related. From the boot disk I ran fsck /dev/hda3 to correct the problem but this filesystem is /dev/sda5 when booting normally. Firstly, Is there a way to bypass the fsck check (perhaps using a boot option) when it occurs? Alternatively is there a way to disable it completely and run the check manually. My installation is all on one partition (excluding swap) which presumably means creating a ram disk containing fsck, unmounting the root file system and re-mounting it following the check. I'm not sure how best to achieve this. Any ideas? Regards, Bruce.