All, I recently heard that the ext3 filesystem (and possibly other journalled filesystems) experience data loss/corruption on certain laptops w/ hard drives that engage in non-standard caching behavior. Has anyone else heard of/experienced this? If so, on what hardware, and is there a fix? Regards, Derek R. -- Linux Technician 713-817-1197 (cell) 713-781-4000 x2267 (office) "What do your voices say to you?"