Hi, nik gaffney writes: > any ideas on how to improve this situation?+ Do not use the HFS file system support in the kernel. If you want to access HFS partitions, use the tools from the hfsutils package which are stable and do not corrupt data. If you want a partition that you can share between Mac OS and Linux, use some sort of FAT format. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!