Every time I have seen 'bad magic number in super-block' it has been cause I was trying to mount something as the wrong type. "mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /Big-Drive/" though generally you would mount /dev/hdcX and not just /dev/hdc. -- Adam Hough High Performance Computing Computing Services Center 200 225-578-7202 fax: 225-578-6400 ahough at lsu.edu