>>>>> "Gerard" == Gerard Robin <robin.jag@free.fr> writes: Gerard> tune2fs -j /dev/hdb3 worked fine for me (I use Gerard> kernel-2.4.18...deb) but after that, I stopped badly my machine Gerard> and when I rebooted, the time to clean /dev/hdb3 is about the Gerard> same as before. Thanks to all who responded to me. Most likely your kernel does not have ext3 compiled to it. Regards, Isaac.