> I discovered that I could successfully e2fsck the > large volume if the system was fully booted. Is this simply that the swap partition had not yet been activated and e2fsck ran out of virtual memory (fixed in the latest sysvinit package), or is it something else? Thanks Bruce -- Pixar Animation Studios: Reality is not our business. Pixar's "Toy Story" $184.79M domestic, $101.7M overseas and counting.