I think i could add some more info here. I'm seeing a similiar problem: EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,72)): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 4048365, count = 7 Aborting journal on device ide1(22,72). This happened twice to me in a week now. A major difference to the original poster is that at both times it happened during the low system activity: once at 1:21am (no cron jobs at that time, no idea what triggered it), the second time during an unrar of a rar archive. Both times on the same ext3 filesystem, which was clean (fsck 1.32) after the first time this happened. I'm running wolk 3.8 kernel, which has bleeding edge stuff all over the place (ext3fs_version is defined as EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19-tuned-htree-orlov and date is 7. November 2002), but anyway ... i dont have any htree or other latest feature on that filesystem, it's an ordinary ext3 in ordered data mode. Also, the hardware is (still) belived to be ok. :) -- Jure Pecar _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users