On 14/06/11 15:15, peter green wrote: > the start of the ext3 root partition went bad nuking the superblock and > thereby rendering the system unbootable. ext3 is a journalling file system - it's doing a *lot* more writing to the card. You'd be better off with something non-journalling (like ext2). Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 293413 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE What if there were no hypothetical situations?