I've got a server running CentOS 4.2; installed as 4.1, kept updated by yum. A few days ago it crashed. I picked it up from the datacenter, and brought it back to the office, where it took a long time to boot because it couldn't find anything. When it finally booted and I logged in I discovered an interesting problem. Only the / partition had loaded. /etc/fstab had all the partitions recognized by their labels. Checking the hard drives showed the labels existed. I even rewrote the disk labels. But the boot procedure couldn't find the drives by their labels. Nor can a "mount -a" command; it says it can't find the info in fstab (though it _is_ there). But long version mount commands work. And when I redo the fstab file to list the devices rather than labels, everything mounts as it should. Any ideas? Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"