Doh, I guess computer viruses can make your own brain do funny things! I just remembered the default config for 44bsd partition type is READ-ONLY! Thusly the following command is illegal: mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdc1 /hdc1 While, the following works just fine: mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdc1 /hdc1 Thanks for the help Peter!!! /Chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher Bruce Stank cstank@nortelnetworks.com CES - Sys Test Engineering (978) 288-6185 Nortel Networks (508) 769-9664 (cel) 600 Technology Park (978) 445-5328 (pgr) M/S E65/60/301 (978) 288-4004 (fax) Billerica, MA 01821 248-6185 (esn) On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Christopher B Stank wrote: stanky>I have tried both with and without the ufstype=44bsd, and both stanky>results in the sam wrong fs type. stanky> stanky>"[root@localhost ufs]# mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdc1 /hdc1 stanky>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1, stanky> or too many mounted file systems" stanky> stanky>The file super.c does exist, too! stanky> stanky>/Chris stanky> stanky>