hi. i recently installed 9.3 pro (from the 5-cd set, not the dvd). all's well except the root partition, which is probably not umounting at shutdown time. the shutdown sequence says "umounting hdb6", but at the next boot it still does an XFS recovery on that partition. this was not the case in 9.2, where XFS recovery ran only when there was an unclean shutdown. just to check what was happening, i used the magic-sysrq combos to sync the disks, remount the partitions r/o, kill all tasks, and instant-reboot. upon the subsequent boot, there was no XFS recovery. i don't thnk it's an XFS driver issue, because the other XFS partitions don't have this problem. here's my partition structure: hdb1 /boot ext3 50 mb hdb5 swap 500 mb hdb6 / xfs 10 gb hdb7 /home xfs 105 gb only hdb6 has the problem, the others are fine. i applied almost all relevant patches through YOU, but the problem persists. ok - i didn't install the kernel patch because that broke the system once on 9.2, and i'm slightly phobic about it. if the kernel patch is a sure cure for this, i'll try it. but if it isn't, i'd rather try other options first. thanks in advance. - t. -- cogito, ergo es.