Hello all, 1.can onyone tell me what a 'crc error' means exactly ?? Have this error time to times and all I have todo is reboot the system. 2.An fsck results in a '......is this a zero lenght partition ....' and/or '.......Null pointer......' can't ... what ? 'run e2fsck -b 8193 <device>' but he can't do that (on a unmounted partition ) Thanks for your help. mess-mate