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Can I share an experience regarding up-dates and Ubuntu Hardy My Daughter has an EEEPC and we have settled on Ubuntu Hardy as the choice of OS. It last week did some updates and has made it's self "unable to mount" any usb device in normal user or using sudo So after seeing the machine gathering dust on the shelf for a week I asked if there was a problem and was told about the error. Looking at the Computer Section on the desktop each device gets listed but when you want to use them you get the same message "unable to mount wrong file type"! So looking in the /etc/fstab I have two cd drives listed on /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 knowing that the EEEpc has no Cd drives commenting the lines out gets me usb mounting back. Easy But what if I had not been around and asked the question? My guess she would have eventually gone and got another machine. Why is it common for us to fall for the continual update regime? I advise all Windoze users to Switch off updates for just this reason. I don't update any in service system unless its to get something better or something which wasn't achievable before. mostly its done on a new disk with the system copied overso when it all goes pare shaped I revert to the origional and I 'am no worse off. Do we need a roll back button on Linux now? Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html