commence yan bai quotation: > Below are what I tried with 'fsck' > > (Repair Filesystem)1# fsck > [...] > (Repair Filesystem)2# fsck /root > [...] > (Repair Filesystem)3# fsck /root/.gnome/session > [...] > (Repair Filesystem)4# fsck -n /root/.gnome/session You need to run fsck on the device node for your root file system, "/", not on an actual directory or file in the filesystem itself. Check /etc/fstab on your machine to find out what this node is by looking at the second field to find "/": the device node is listed in the first field. For example, here is the relevant line from *my* /etc/fstab: /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Here you can see that on my machine the device node for "/" is /dev/hda2. Therefore I would run fsck /dev/hda2. Check your /etc/fstab and run fsck in a similar fashion. -- ///////////////// | | The spark of a pin <sneakums@zork.net> | (require 'gnu) | dropping, falling feather-like. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | | There is too much noise.