If the hostile party has physical access, your options are _extremely_ limited. Even disabling/removing the floppy, won't prevent somebody with a screwdriver/crowbar who is determined to gain access. Some kind of encrypted fs, maybe. Most of the ones I found on google seem to be abandoned. Hal Duston Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com] wrote: --snip-- > How do you prevent a Linux filesystem from being locally mounted > and modified by someone using a floppy boot/root disk?