> did you check the filesystem. > Ages ago there was a couple of problems like this caused by filesystem > corruptions being fixable by the checker. > > Please report, if this helped. Since I see this problem while creating the filesystem with mke2fs -c, I don't think that is the problem. I first has the problem right after creating the file system when coping files to it. That time, I did not do the bad block checking on the file system. ----------------------------------------------------- Protect yourself from spam, use http://sneakemail.com