For an unknown reason I had a small glitch a short while ago with computer 'hiccupping' when I went to close an application and I lost the system/quickstart tray on the (KDE) desktop; had to reboot. The reboot was not totally successful because there was an error message showing that one of the partitions could not be accessed and that I had to fix it manually. The problem partition was not the / partition but /dev/hdc11 (explained below). By commenting out hdc11 in fstab I was able to boot into 10.1 normally (but no hdc11--sob :-( .) I have 2 HDs, hda and hdc. hda has the Suse OS on it and on hdc I have one partition -- hdc11 -- which is also formatted in reiserfs and which I use to hold some backups of directories and files. It is this hdc11 partition (~3.5GB) which is in trouble. I ran reiserfsck against hdc11 and there is corruption- I get the error message, "Bad root block 0 (--rebuild-tree did not complete)" when I ran reiserfsck --check against it. How do I get reiserfsck to fix this problem? (the only reiserfsck option I haven't tried yet is --rebuild-tree). Or do I now only have the dd_rescue option left (which I have never used) :-( ? Advice most welcome. Thanks. Cheers. -- This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th. George W. Bush 11 Oct 2006