1. corrupt a spare partition with no related entry in fstab 2. for example sdb1 can have an unclean vfat fs and sdb2 is mounted with an fstab entry (ok) /var/log/messages can fill up / partition ... in the situation No pop ups indicate the problem Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc