> Interesting info, Jim. > But, if I modify these options ¿Is the fs robustness as before? It'll behave faster, but it will be slightly less careful with your data. For example, commit=15 means that journaled data is commited to the drive very 15 seconds instead of every 5. If you're okay with this then it's not a big deal. Noatime is a performance tip usually good for webservers or virtual machines, or any other place where you may not care about recording file access times. Changing 'data=foo' mount options are something that must be examined and tested, much as changing the elevator options. There's some good documentation in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.9/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell