The system is a tame dfi x86-64, with suse 9.3 and kde 3.5 , installed on a new sata drive about a month ago. Since this was my first sata drive, i did a clean install: sda1 a 1gb swap partition, sda2 a 30gb root partition formatted w. reiser fs (first time i let suse install with all it's defaults) and sda3 a 129gb /home partition, which was eventually populated with my previous /home stuff. No problems with the system other than problems with video plugins for firefox & browsers, a standard headache for an x86-64 system. Even had vmware installed and going very nicely. yesterday i used lxdvdrip to backup a couple of dvd's. after the 2nd dvd i received the message that the /tmp space was running short, so i deleted th previous dvd files from /tmp (in the 30gb partition). The files showed deleted, but df showed hardly any free space. somehow, about 15-20 gb of space had gone missing!!!! tried fsck with a rescue run off the suse 9.3 dvd, it said that using fix-fixables would fix the system errors, alas, no results, if anything, even more free space ends up missing if i "delete" things and run df!!!!! Now I am forced to reinstall, I see no way of recovering my clear space in the sda2 partition. Of course it will *not* be formatted w. reiser. Every time i tried it in the past 4 years, it always resulted in a problem, usually major. so, reiserfs is definitely *not* for me. d.