Hi all, Question about fsck, I need to know how to run it correctly. I log in as root and type the following- fsck -t nondos /dev./hda# and it says that running fsck will cause severe file damage. So how then do I unmount the file system to run it ? Also when installing linux and creating your partitions it always asks where you want your mount point to be ? Where should it be ? I have win98 and mandrake 7.0 and its split right down the middle. It always wants to know where to put the mount point. Since lilo will fail anyways because of the 1024 cylinder error I just say root or / and use a floppy and never have had a problem. So once I get 7.1 will there be a difference ? Also how do you move your swap space to the front ? When I create the partition it always wants to put it in the very end of the partition. I dont have a performance issue just wanted to know if this is a better way. Finally I see alot of you all have a seperate partition for each section or part of mandrake is this necessary ? Ive always used the auto allocate and it sees windows and makes a space and then leaves the rest for linux but only the root or / and swap space. So is the rest just auto allocated or is root the only real partition there ? Thank you, Chronos.