> Ok, let's try to fix this. Can you run "dumpe2fs -h $DEV" where $DEV > is the block device the filesystem resides on, and report the output? I see you already have a patch for testing but here is the output from mounted filesystem: Filesystem volume name: mandariin-root Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 1ff8d6d7-6d17-4bfa-9758-27a879320627 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr dir_index filetype sparse_super Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: not clean Errors behavior: Remount read-only Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 14446080 Block count: 28835840 Reserved block count: 1441792 Free blocks: 7187096 Free inodes: 14323802 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16416 Inode blocks per group: 513 Filesystem created: Thu Sep 23 17:14:35 2004 Last mount time: Tue Feb 21 12:24:06 2012 Last write time: Wed Feb 22 09:20:16 2012 Mount count: 1 Maximum mount count: 27 Last checked: Tue Feb 21 13:32:08 2012 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Sun Aug 19 14:32:08 2012 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 4605a528-34b9-4b7c-8455-fdcaf274e145 Journal backup: inode blocks Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke Journal size: 32M Journal length: 8192 Journal sequence: 0x00917abb Journal start: 0 -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html