> When I'm just about done booting-up, the fsck runs and says
> that /dev/sd2a is not clean.  So I run fsck and the file system gets marked
> as being clean.  I reboot and the same thing happens.  What to do?

be sure to reboot -n, otherwise the disk is synched and becomes unclean 
again.

> Also, I'm currently only using one hard disk which is my root device.  It's
> labelled as /dev/sd2a.  From what I've seen in the past, most root devices
> are usually /dev/sd0a.  Is this a sign of a problem? or not?

the scsi devices are numbered in the order they appear on the chain.  if 
your root device is sd2, it just means that you have 2 scsi devices with 
lower numbers in your chain.

l8r.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX