> is this error reproducible? Sorry, I didn't try; it was a production server I already had one short-notice reboot on, and I didn't feel like trying for two. (Although you're right, I should have thought of leaving it like that until a good maintenance window instead of immediately e2fscking and cleaning up.) >> Here's the tune2fs -l output. No idea why it says "clean"; it is still >> mounted read/write. > i don't know if this is "ok" (don't have the docs atm) but does e2fsck > report anything to worry about? No, it didn't. I moved half of the .deb files and completed the update by halves, and all was well. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users