OK, can you try the following? Right after you boot, can you try running this command, and let me know whether it returns the correct information?
blkid -t LABEL=vms6 Or you don't have to reboot; try changing the device name at the end of the line for vmm6, changing it to be something like this: <device DEVNO="0x0831" TIME="1202040663" LABEL="vms6" UUID="82a15e8d-bae0-4300-8329-dc89268a71c4" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2">/dev/sda5</device> (The above is all one line) and then try the above line, and see whether you get the right information. Blkid has always done the right thing in this regard, and nothing has changed here recently --- that's why I'm asking you what version of e2fsprogs you upgraded from previously. I'm wondering if the issue is that the kernel is taking longer to autodetect your USB devices, so they simpler aren't showing up at boot. If the above works after the boot process. So I would try the following. Try corrupting /etc/blkid.tab so the device information for vms6 is wrong, and then try the mount. If it works, but it's not working at boot time, try adding a sleep 15 before the mount -a command in the init scripts, and see if that fixes it... - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]