Most likely your disk is dying. This is probably not the best place to ask about that. Depending on your disk type, "smartctl", sg_info, or other tools might tell you more. But you probably just want to replace it anyways. Note that flash drives tend to 'brick' when they finally fail. -Marcus Watts -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html