Yesterday, I discovered that PCMCIA failed on my laptop. (Reiser fs as root). The problem was that /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/usb/serial contained some garbage. The garbage appears not to be legitimate files. Solution to the PCMCIA problem: I was able to rename the directory, create a new serial directory and move the valid modules from the old serial directory to the new one. PCMCIA now comes up, which is good, so I can now rsync my home directory. The problem is that I now have a directory with garbage. rm -rf fails because it is unable to remove the 2 or 3 "files". As I mentioned, the "files" are binary characters that cause the terminal characteristics to change. ls -i reports the 3 files as "No such file or directory". I can simply keep this bad directory. Another problem is that reiserfsck --check reports a corruption, but can't fix it because root is mounted. So the second question, is that can I boot the CD, and run reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on the file system without totally trashing the system? (Mostly backed up, but my CD-ROM/DVD is flackey. It works today, but did not work yesterday), -- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/