Hi Ted, While testing on powerpc i found that e2fsck is getting confused about fast symlink on powerpc. On x86_64 it works fine. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Mar 19 15:18 d -> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gnome-netstatus-txrx.png [root@gekko-lp2 ~]# /usr/local/e2fsprogs/sbin/debugfs /dev/sda7 debugfs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) debugfs: stat d Inode: 24483 Type: symlink Mode: 0777 Flags: 0x80000 Generation: 2913520215 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 60 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 8 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x47e166f9 -- Wed Mar 19 15:18:17 2008 atime: 0x47e166fb -- Wed Mar 19 15:18:19 2008 mtime: 0x47e166f9 -- Wed Mar 19 15:18:17 2008 Size of extra inode fields: 28 BLOCKS: debugfs: root@gekko-lp2 ~]# /usr/local/e2fsprogs/sbin/e2fsck -f /dev/sda7 e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error while reading over extent tree in inode 24483: Corrupt extent header Clear inode<y>? yes Inode 24483, i_blocks is 8, should be 0. Fix<y>? yes Fast symlink 100055 has EXTENT_FL set. Clear<y>? -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html