I checked both fsck and fsck_ffs man page, and don't see anything in either ... is there some way I can check if a file system is actually 'clean', without running fsck? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy at hub.org MSN . scrappy at hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664