Andreas, Thanks for the tips. I'm sorry to report that I've not been able to make much progress. Any idea what I should try next? Thanks in advance! Regards, Tom Andreas Dilger said: > On Apr 09, 2005 16:07 -0400, Tom Cooper wrote: > 'debugfs -R "feature needs_recovery" /dev/hdb1' is what you want. That > should probably be put into the tune2fs man page. [root@marvin root]# debugfs -R "feature needs_recovery" /dev/hdb1 debugfs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) /dev/hdb1: Can't read an inode bitmap while reading inode bitmap feature: Filesystem not open > After this you should probably run badblocks before recreating the > journal. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users