Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > OK. I managed to beat the machine into submission. But a slight > incertainty remains. I'd be concerned about the initial filesystem error perhaps being hardware related. You might try a 'cat /dev/sda >/dev/null' to force a full disk read, then 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' to see if the health still looks OK. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com