On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, John Foster wrote: > Just a guess but did he have the filesystem mounted when he ran fsck :-) Aha, that could be... where else would he have found fsck? OK, so how does one go about running fsck without mounting root? I suppose that's supposed to be on a set of rescue disks, to be loaded into a ramdisk? That makes me wonder, is there a good chance that it would have messed up other files as well? Later, Hugo