getting closer with 4/5 mounted I think my fat32 fstab line is wrong: '/dev/sdc1 /media/400G vfat force 0 0' -what should it be for: 'Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x524a757d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 48641 390706232 b W95 FAT32' as: 'root@THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# mount -a mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so' can you explain this please?: 'root@THUNDERCAT1:/home/max# dmesg | tail [ 132.669304] type=1503 audit(1240305748.853:5): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" fsuid=7 name="/dev/tty" pid=5868 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" [ 133.772074] type=1503 audit(1240305749.957:6): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" fsuid=7 name="/dev/tty" pid=5870 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" [ 133.807549] type=1503 audit(1240305749.989:7): operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" fsuid=7 name="/dev/tty" pid=5871 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" [ 133.884115] ppdev0: registered pardevice [ 133.932030] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice [ 978.989407] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "force" or missing value [ 991.005900] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "force" or missing value [ 1511.877184] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "force" or missing value [ 1520.734894] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "force" or missing value [ 1639.398755] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "force" or missing value' Nearly!!!!!!!!!!!