Hello all, after a long laps in time I am rebuilding my linux box and am having a problem with my root file system being mounted read only instead of being mounted read/write. I have been doing some looking and e2fsck -p tells me the file system is clean when I scan it using the system rescue cd from www.sysresccd.org. I have been noticing that devpts is being mounted although it is disabled in the kernel which by the way is 2.6.11. I am truly at a loss here on what to do about this. I have ran into a similar problem in the past and am not sure how I fixed it. The distribution is gentoo and is set up to use udev. The file system is ext3 and is on partition /dev/hda3. I am using lvm for /usr, /var, /home, /tmp and /opt. I know this is all kind of sketchy at 4:30 in the morning so any help would be well appreciated. Glad to be back on the list again. Doug Doug Lawlor, Email: dlawlor at warp.nfld.net Skype: dlawlor1971