re my last email. I forgot to mention that my kernel version is 2.4.0 with XFS patches and I am running unstable. rgh -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <rgh@roughage.com.au> key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291