Suggest you try the fedora solution mentioned here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=57764 Which is to create a file like following: $ cat /etc/sysconfig/autofsck AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=yes PROMPT=yes AUTOFSCK_TIMEOUT=10 AUTOFSCK_OPT="" >From a quick read of the relevant parts of /etc/rc.sysinit on one of my centos 4.4 systems, it looks likely this will work here too- but I have not tested it at all. -- Cheers, Tony