On Tuesday 13 April 2004 13:20 Thomas Steudten's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Try fsck.ext2 (or fsck) with -fvn <your root device eg /dev/hda1>. > -n tests in read-only mode. > Ok, here there's the result: fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Warning! /dev/hda1 is mounted. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information 30 inodes used (1%) 1 non-contiguous inodes (3.3%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 10/6/0 6937 blocks used (86%) 0 bad blocks 0 large files 18 regular files 2 directories 0 character device files 0 block device files 0 fifos 0 links 1 symbolic links (1 fast symbolic links) 0 sockets -------- 21 files it seems correct, isn't it? I've tried also to dd to /dev/null and it worked well: 16002+0 records in 16002+0 records out 8193024 bytes transferred in 0.454885 seconds (18011202 bytes/sec) any idea? Thanks, Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html