Hi, Don't know what happened, but after subsequent reboots to get the serial console on-line, making sure the output was sent to the serial device and logged properly, the file was deleted without any issue. I am positive fsck -y was run several times before reporting the problem......... I will start a memtest (hw diag) for potential memory problems. Thanks for the prompt replies. regards paul sct@redhat.com 02/09/02 16:43 To: paul_pot@nl.sonymusic.com cc: sct@redhat.com, ext3-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: Problem with file-deletion Hi, On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:58:58PM +0200, paul_pot@nl.sonymusic.com wrote: > Thanks for the prompt reply. How would I be able to capture all the info > from the console since there is more information displayed than fits on > the screen itself ? If the root filesystem is still OK, the information may be successfully captured in /var/log/messages. Otherwise, you can set up a serial console to another host and use the "ttywatch" package to record the logs: find it at http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/ttywatch.html Cheers, Stephen