Hi Richard Harran, you wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +0000: >I just had a huge panic, when my file system 'spontaneously' turned read >only! man tune2fs Your device has reached the time between two file-system checks. Wait until the checks are finished, it should become rw again after that. Kind regards Frederick -- Linux *is* user-friendly. It's just a little picky about it's friends.