I've looked around and haven't found anything along these lines. Not sure how it can be done. Sorry, wish I could help. If anybody comes up with the solution I would be interested in posting it on my web site for future reference. Thx Frank www.xmission.com/~dmacleod Jerry Human wrote: > > Ok, I'll re-read the man and pay special attention to the sixth field. I was > originally looking for a way to increase the allowable number of mounted > items and may have missed this. > > What I am mounting is all partitions on all drives and floppies, cdroms, etc. > so, yes, most of them are file system entries. I have also read the manpage > for mount but I still don't know how to increase the maximun number of > mountable items. At this time I need 14 mounts but it balks after 6. Do you > know how I can fix this? > > Thank you. > > Frank Carreiro wrote: > > > Are these filesystems you are mounting? If so then you want to read > > through the man page of fstab and consider changing the sixth field > > appropriately. Your boot/root partition should have a 1 in the sixth > > field and all other's should have a 2. If a 0 or if the sixth field > > isn't present then basically fsck will presume that filesystem doesn't > > need to be checked. I don't recommend that :-) > > > > Hope this helps > > > > Frank > > > > Jerry Human wrote: > > > > > > Hello Mr. Carreiro: > > > > > > Having checked my fstab file I found the sixth field to be all zeros > > > except for the one for the boot partition (/). Is there anything else I > > > should check? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > There is nothing wrong with > > WINDOWS 2000 > > that Linux couldn't fix > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > > as the Subject. -- There is nothing wrong with WINDOWS 2000 that Linux couldn't fix -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.