EXT-Wolber, Richard wrote: > the filesystem or files to be corrupted such that it cannot later be > mounted > Why you want to manipulate files on ext3? How about if you make a small partition and just write there without any file system. If you do like this, you can mount ext3 ro, so you do not have to worry about any corruption on "real" partition. Of course, you may need to tweak your application. -- Markus Peuhkuri | http://iki.fi/puhuri/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users