Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 .... after a system crash due to a winmodem driver running with dependency problems .. OK I get the bit about tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 I dont get the bit about touch /forcefsck ???? touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ? I can understand doing a fsck, but this command sequence has thrown me !! Can anyone shed light ?? Dave