Now that its all working nicely, I've added the new partitions to fstab like so: /dev/hdc1 /home/engineering ext3 rw 0 2 /dev/hdc3 /home/data ext3 rw 0 2 Is this correct or should I use defaults,errors=remount-ro instead of rw? Not a life or death question (I think) but advice would be appreciated. Thanks.