Just to clarify, it did clear the problems, but the continued use of the file system resulted in more corruption. It's no longer usable. I have to remake the file system and copy the data again. bill -- 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