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Steve, Well…actually…in SVR3, at least AT&T's version…it does work. The script /etc/mountall reads /etc/fstab for what filesystems are automounted when going into run level 2. The script checks the filesystem and based on the output either runs fsck on it and mounts it…or it simply mounts it. The way the script comes from AT&T, it uses the same named file in /tmp (/tmp/tmp to be exact) for it's scratch file. Thus you couldn't simply run it in the background since multiple fsck's would all try to use the same tmp file. But it's easy enought to pass off the parameters to a 2nd script and run that 2nd script in the background multiple times. (for multiple filesystems of course) Don