As Warren says, you don't want to sync after an fsck run has made changes to the disk. Simply turn off and reboot. One gotcha Warren omitted was the process /etc/update, which is usually started at boot-time from /etc/rc. This process does a sync every 30 secs automatically. Before fscking a live filesystem, kill update first! If fsck finds anything wrong, shutdown immediately without a sync. Of course, fscking unmounted filesystems is far safer, but not always possible for the root partition ... Cheers, Bob. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Manners Osney Laboratory rjm(a)swift.eng.ox.ac.uk Dept of Engineering Science University of Oxford 01865 288762 Try: http://swift.eng.ox.ac.uk Linux - the only choice This message brought to you from an entirely Microsoft free system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------