I have seen many folk who have signatures stating that the machine has been running for something like 400 days. Whilst I applaud this type of reliability, I am wondering about the actual fs as the machine isn't rebooted so that fsck can check the partitions. I am perhaps paranoid about keeping the fs in tip top shape but it is the basis that we all rely on. so my question is this: Can a system that has such uptime have its all its fs checked and not be rebooted? Could a system Linux boot floppy specific to the system be inserted, mounted, and then be told to unmount the running systems partitions listed in the fstab(except the floppy, and fsck them and then re-mount them, without losing the uptime figure? Just wondering about the fs of those MAJOR uptime hosts -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================