I've been trying to add support for the iocharset= mount option and it won't work because the '-' character is not allowed by the mount script. changing to: GIVEN_MOUNTOPTIONS=${GIVEN_MOUNTOPTIONS//[^a-zA-Z0-9_=-[:space:]]/_} fixes the problem. -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. fejj at ximian.com - www.novell.com