Ron Johnson wrote: <snip> > In /etc/fstab, try adding noauto to /dev/hdbX's field #4. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. Thanks for the suggestion, Ron but /dev/hdbX (where X is any number or nothing) is not in my fstab; only /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 (and the cdrom drives) Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/