Theodore Tso wrote: > What output do you see from e2fsck if you manually run it? Just the usual output: [root@xback1 ~]# fsck /dev/xbackup1/xback1_backup1 fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) /dev/xbackup1/xback1_backup1 has gone 191 days without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure And hangs indefinitely. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users