poweroff shutdown (with some args, check the man pages....dopn't have my Linux box infront of me) reboot
Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount all the partitions). Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. http://www.missouri.edu/~c680789 <--"Computer languages of the world" My work in progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------