Ok, i see more clearly now the vast extents of my stupidity, and the gap between perception and reality: - the partition is and has been ext3 all the way (sorry linux-ext4 for misspamming!) - i treated /proc/mounts with ignorance - it seems out of lazyness i did not actually check lsof/ mount point the way i should have (ouch! what i did was as good indeed as not doing anything.. looking/grepping for the WRONG mount path eew) - the BOINC daemon was running and holding locks on its working directory, even still until i just shut it down. SHEESH! Sometimes it just needs a couple more iterations of rereconsidering the actual situation. So people, treat your filesystems with the respect and attention they deserve. And TRUST warning messages spit out by highly adept file system tools MORE than your intuition. These tools *do* work as advertised. Well and the point about backing up precious stuff -=[before]=- knocking out your FS structures already has been made before i guess. regards marcel. -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surfflat/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a -- 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
