On Jul 24, 2002 11:37 +0200, Jens-Uwe Katolla wrote: > last fsck says my /tmp and my /home files system has errors, here is the > log from fsck using the read-only option: > > How to recover from this savely? A normal fsck will clean this up easily, as will simply mounting the filesystem. > How to avoid this in future? You cannot - orphan files are files that are opened by a program but deleted. Many programs (e.g. pcmcia cardctl, X11, gnome, etc) use such temporary files. > kernel says: > > Jul 24 11:34:13 o5s kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,10)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 This is a bug which has been fixed. It was marking the filesystem in error when it was full. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/