Hans Deragon (imap) wrote: > > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/genericdata1 ext2 rw 0 0 It seems that you weren't actually waiting for your root filesystem to fsck, but rather this one. If partitions were mounted when power was lost, then all of them get checked out, not just the root -- and fsck'ed if they need it. Since this partition was mounted (and formatted) ext2, it needed it. At least, that seems a likely (to me) cause of this. HTH _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users