On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 23:53 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > <snip> > LM> I'd be concerned about the initial filesystem error perhaps > LM> being hardware related. You might try a 'cat /dev/sda > LM> >/dev/null' to force a full disk read, then 'smartctl -a > LM> /dev/sda' to see if the health still looks OK. > > Thanks. That's one of the things that never come up in the "System > administration for half-wits"-books that I usually read There's your problem! You have to be a half-wit for those books. The fact that you have the the incentive to read a book means you are *not* a half-wit. Ergo: your reading the wrong books! ;-) > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill