your command should have been: mount -w -t hfs /dev/disk0s5 / see your mistake? -------^ Judging from your last post, the /tmp symlink exists, so it doesn't matter... if it hangs after you enter your username/password, My advice is to rename your library folder, and start slogging through app preferences. If it hangs before you have a chance to enter your username/password, I'd either do a "update_prebinding -root / -force" or reinstall OS (of the update/refresh type). On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 04:29 PM, ivan melicoff wrote: > finally after df-k I got the dev and it was disk0s5 > then ran > #mount -w -t hfs /dev/disk0s5/ >> # mount -w -t hfs /dev/disk0s9 /