SUSE 9.0 100g WD IDE drive 133 bus /dev/hde IDE DMA 100 I have just encountered some file corruption, I think. SUSE9 hung up and, after a 20 minute wait, I rebooted. I got notice that /dev/hde8 needed manual run of fsck. wahoo:~ # fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/hde8 e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003) fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hde8 Could this be a zero-length partition? wahoo:~ # fdisk -l /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 1 6867 55158736+ 5 Extended /dev/hde5 1 1306 10486161 83 Linux /dev/hde6 1306 2611 10486192+ 83 Linux /dev/hde7 2611 5043 19535008+ 83 Linux /dev/hde8 5043 6867 14651248+ 83 Linux Expert command (m for help): m Command action e list extended partitions Expert command (m for help): e Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 12161 cylinders Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID 1 00 1 1 0 254 63 1023 63110317473 05 5 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 20972385 20972448 05 6 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 41944833 39070080 05 7 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 81014913 29302560 05 8 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Which appears to show that the extended partition information is missing. Google and suse db provide no (recent) answers, but many other similar experiences. Is there and answer or have I lost the partition? Would the "Expert command" to "f fix partition order" have any helpful result? Is there hope? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org