hi Christophe, On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:46:55 +0100 (CET) Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscalinet.be> wrote: --snip-- > kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,1)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #487195: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 --snip-- i have never played with raid so this is just a wild guess. to me this looks like a filesystem error. maybe give e2fsck a chance? f. soul