This is the error during boot: reiser file system check on root for device mapper setup Fsck 1.34 (25-jul-2003) Reisers super block in block 16 on 0x305 of format 3.6 with standard journal Blocks (total.free) 2622603/2542804 by 4096 bytes Filesystem is not clean Partition /dev/hda5 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda5 failed (status 0x10) run manually etc/init.d/kbdL line1 : locale command not found etc/init.d/kbdL line1 : /usr/bin/tty no such file or directory I have run dd if=/dev/hda5 /of=/dev/null I have run tar -cf /dev/null /mnt without error I have booted knoppix and run reiserfs --fix-fixable /dev/hda5 on the unmounted partition, I also ran --check and --rebuild-sb Replaying journal.. 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree..finished Comparing bitmaps..finished Checking Semantic tree: finished No corruptions found There are on the filesystem: Leaves 1836 Internal nodes 13 Directories 1795 Other files 22255 Data block pointers 69667 (8 of them are zero) Safe links 0 ########### reiserfsck finished at Sun Apr 3 03:36:21 2005 ########### When I reboot I get the same error that the partition was not clean. I copied the partition to another partition (cp -axv . /mnt2) reset menu.lst and fstab and still have the error I'm sort of working now, I still have the initial crtl-D session open in pseudoterm 1 From another term I unmounted everything, mount showed them mounted but unmount said they were not after a few unmounts they appeared that way. usbdevfs was mounted several times. I then ran mount -a to mount them again and I saw the reiser messages. I then ran init 3 and logged in as usual. Any ideas why / says it was not clean? There was another post that said this problem was due to fstab troubles. I'm running SuSE 9.0 apt-getted regularly -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Machines to trade http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/trade.html Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca