I think sata drives are not meant to be persistent. Replace /dev/sdX in your fastab, with LABEL=audio_drive or so. This will mount the drives by label Regards <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Paul F. Johnson <<a href="mailto:paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk">paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, I've labelled my drives using e2label and they're now being recognised as home_drive, audio_drive and devel_drive. I can only sometimes mount them using fstab as it looks like the labels aren't being used, but the last /dev/ sd* is (for example, /dev/sde1 might be audio_drive, but then on the next boot, /dev/sdf1 is audio_drive but then the system fails on booting with the error that /dev/sde1 is mounted). There is nothing in /etc/mtab, but the problem seems to occur when the system is rebooted after the shutdown procedure didn't work correctly. Any ideas on this or what I should file it under with BZ? TTFN Paul -- Programmer, GirlGamer <a href="http://www.girlgamer.com" target="_blank">www.girlgamer.com</a> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>