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Simon Waters wrote: > Since the disk would be made read-only on a fault, fsck will show > errors, as the disk wasn't cleanly unmounted. More crucial is are any of > the errors the kind that wouldn't be caused by unclean shutdown. i.e. > Bad block, or other serious errors. Fixed. Filesystem errors were the cause. Since the hard disk has been swapped around between several systems and had a few very unclean shutdowns I'm not really surprised. I now have two root partitions so I can boot one to fix the other. I think I'm going to setup a read-only fsck cron job as well. Thanks Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html