This I feel needed a separate thread because it is a different issue than the thread I started called Cannot create hard drive icons. I got a 19G partition that I am trying to access. The file system is reiser. I can mount it and umount it from the command line just fine but it is when I try and do it through either KDE or GNOME that I run into issues. I created the desktop icon for the drive and click on it. It mounts successfully and I am able to carry out read/write operations to the disk. But I close the konqueror window and try to umount it by right clicking on the icon and choosing unmount, I get the error that the drive cannot umount because it is still busy. Well looking at the processes, I see that konqueror did not completely die. I kill it and then I am able to umount successfully. Now in Gnome, I right click on the desktop and choose in the disk menu the drive that I want to mount, it mounts and I see the icon on the desktop. But if I immediately try to umount it or even after working with the drive try and umount it, Gnome freezes up completely! Hard! I needed to do a reboot in order to gain access to my machine. Can anyone give me any clues on why this is? I would appreciate it! Ok here is the 2 variations I tried in the fstab file and both have the same outcomes. Original one I put in: /dev/hdb2 /mydata reiserfs user,noauto,acl,user_xattr 0 0 One that I have now: /dev/hdb2 /mydata reiserfs user,noauto 0 0 Thanks! Marshall