Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Since its only the /usr directory (presumably its own partition), don't > reformat it or you'll have to reinstall. If it's ext2/3, use > # e2fsck -c -c /dev/xxx That was my first recovering oeration. It is about 10 hours 'fsck.ext3' is running now, yet less than half partition has been scanned. My /usr partition is 2 GB. Is it possible to pause the process, so as to be able to restart fsck later? Thank you -- Pol