The real question is: Why was /dev/hdb3 not cleanly unmounted on shutdown?
If I had only known the answer. As I have to upgrade the kernel for my firewall/router PC which is low on space (well actually the whole thing is 180 MB Hard disk ) so I have to initiate rpm -e for both packages before I can do rpm -Uhv for the new ones so I can have space I have to scp these rpms first unless someone can show me a way to install the rpms over ssh without actually copying the rpm to the firewall
Make a ramdisk that is big enough and copy it there. Mount the directory where the rpm is via NFS and install it from there. Convert the rpm to a cpio archive and pipe this archive directly into cpio, maybe using netcat or alike. I shouldn't give you this advice, actually, because a consistent system is worth something the next time. It's just that in this case it doesn't break that many things... Thanks, Roman. -- - - | Roman Drahtmüller <draht@suse.de> // "Caution: Cape does | SuSE GmbH - Security Phone: // not enable user to fly." | Nürnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // (Batman Costume warning label) | - -