I've been having problems with SuSE 8.2 auto rebooting for no apparent reason. At first I thought it was my hard drive since one time when I tried to fsck /dev/hda5 I got a kernel panic. After about 4 of these auto reboots and following "e2fsck -c -f /dev/hda5" I now have files in lost+found. Can these files be deleted? I had a backup of the root file system (/dev/hda5) and think everything is now correct. I've determined that most of the files/directories are from /etc/opt/... I'm not yet convinced the hard drive was the problem because I was getting system freezing while performing an fsck on /dev/hdb1 which is my backup. As a last resort I checked memory using the memtest on the SuSE DVD. It determine that my second 256Mb memory stick was bad. I removed it and am running on only 256Mb :( If the system is stable for the next 2 weeks I'll add more memory and call the system good. The following are my questions: 1) Can I safely delete the files in lost+found. 2) Is it possible for bad memory to cause problem with the file system on a hard drive (ext2)? 3) Should I still be concerned with a possible HD failure. The drive is an 80Gb Western Digital, about 8 months old. Sorry for the long post but I thought a little history might help. Regards, Terry -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Sat 01/31/04 21:40 9:40pm up 8:14, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.12