Dear all, Whenever I leave hurd, I use this command sequence: sync reboot However, whether I then go back to hurd or linux, they both report that the filesystems were not cleanly unmounted :( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/