In /etc/fstab I have:- /dev/sda4 /mnt/pd ext2 rw,users,noauto 0 0 whenever I boot up /dev/sda4 is always mounted. Why is that? Is there something in the destop environment that is overriding fstab? Or is my fstab entry faulty? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/