Maurice Batey wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:22:34 +0100, I wrote: > >> there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition? > > Seems not, so - sadly - have crossed Centos off my list. Sorry, I seem to have missed the start of this thread, and certainly don't understand it. Certainly, all the systems I've upgraded to CentOS 6, including the one I'm writing this on, are all booting off ext3 /boot partitions. mark