Hi Andreas, Tks for your advice. > It is pretty clear that there is some type of > single-bit corruption with your disk: - snip - > I'd suspect either something bad in the controller > or maybe a cable. I recall once the screen hanged compelling me to press a hard-reboot. Later I found out the cause was due to the bad contact of the power cable of HD. I got the problem fix after running; # fcsk.ext3 -b 32768 /dev/hda8 and answering several questions. Now partition /dev/hda8 is now working. Tks again for your assistance. B.R. SL _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users