On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Kai Harris wrote: > this is the entry in fstab: > > /dev/hdb /mnt/natalie vfat defaults 1 1 You want /dev/hdb1, not /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is the entire hard drive, and /dev/hdb1 is the first (and probably the only) partition on the hard drive. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ PGP key available upon request.