My /var partition failed to mount this morning with the error "resize inode not valid". I have had no soft or hard crashes that I am aware of and have made no recent changes to the structure and layout of my volumes. /var is a logical volume managed by LVM running on my /dev/md2 device I have three md devices on two disks. My volume setup is as follows: /dev/md0 formatted to ext3 contains root OS /dev/md1 has LVM volume group /dev/vgHome and a single logical volume (/dev/vgHome/home mounted under /home /dev/md2 has LVM group /dev/vgData and two logical volumes (/dev/vgData/data & /dev/vgData/var) mounted under /data and /var respectively. What I have done so far is basically fsck.ext3 -f on all my volumes from a recovery console, all volumes are reported as clean. I can actually manually mount /var but the system will not boot with /var in fstab. cat /proc/mdstat & mdadm verifies the md devices are running and in order, however i have the following issues I have noticed. When booting boot.md reports as failed, here is a snippet from boot.msg Starting MD Raid mdadm: /dev/md/1 has been started with 2 drives. mdadm: /dev/md/2 has been started with 2 drives. failed I have noticed "File descriptor 3 left open" messages from LVM during boot but I would have though if there were problems, fsck.ext3 would pick that up? So how to troubleshoot "resize inode not valid" on my /var? Cheers Graham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org