Very short program names are a unix tradition: hence "cp", "mv", "ls", etc. fsck is short for "File System ChecK" for those non-unix folks out there. But yes, it does very nearly look like the F work. :-) Drew Brian Conner wrote: > > BTW, don't you wish the Unix dudes had used a different command than "fsck" > for this? It looks too much like the F word to sight-readers. (Yes, that is > a dig at non-phonics reading programs.) -- --------------------------------------------------------- Drew Taylor * Web app development & consulting drew at drewtaylor.com * Site implementation & hosting www.drewtaylor.com * perl/mod_perl/DBI/mysql/postgres ---------------------------------------------------------