On Mon, October 30, 2006 5:41 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:

I am using the EXT3 file system. Today, I powered on the machine and went into the other room for a few minutes while it booted up. When I came back, it turned out that it had come time for an fsck on the disk and the disk was so corrupted that it couldn't be mounted in rw mode.

<snip> I don't use EXTx but wonder if there was an update which has caused an inconsistancy in your HDD. I had this happen about a year back while under 9.3 on one of my machines running Reiser. About every third time I'd reboot I'd get stuck having to manually fdisk and repair my hard drive. At first I thought it was the hard drive failing, but when I upgraded to 10.0, the problem went away and hasn't re-appeared. I've been using the same hard drive on that machine (now in 10.1) since I first started with SUSE on 9.1 and only saw the issue for about a month last year. You might check with others in the *nix world who are using EXTx and see if they've got a similar issue. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request