>> As long as the drives are only detected and mount points made, it don't have a >> problem. If the drives are *mounted*, I have a real problem. By mounting the >> drive, you may suddenly cause a drive to get fsck'ed by a newer program that >> oopses older kernels, > >Has this actually happened? Yes. I have a drive that is a pass between 2 OS's that's partitioned as ext3. When FC3 does anything to that drive & I reboot into another OS, it oopses. Sometimes on boot it drops me to a nash console where I basically reformat the partition to recover. -Steve Grubb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail