This is an update to my previous mail about problem with the 5*36.5 GB Soft RAID setup. I'm not sure if this problem is RAID or Ext2 related. I just created a new raid (without creating any filesystem etc. until the rebuild finished). When fsck:ing a _NEW_ filesystem (no options where used when creating it), fsck complains _a lot_. I even got the error: "Unattached inode 1049263 Connect to /lost+found<y>? yes WARNING: PROGRAMMING BUG IN E2FSCK! OR SOME BONEHEAD (YOU) IS CHECKING A MOUNTED (LIVE) FILESYSTEM." -------------------------------------- Since my last try have I also uppgraded to the latest (ide.2.2.13.19991104.patch) ide patch. But it does not seem to help. Any help would be very appreciated. Regards Jakob Sandgren Below is the output from a "mke2fs + fsck". Fsck was interupted with CTRL+C. q:/home/jakob# mke2fs /dev/md0 mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 17842176 inodes, 35672960 blocks 1783648 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 1089 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done q:/home/jakob# fsck -f /dev/md0 Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999) e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Inode 16778549 is in use, but has dtime set. Fix<y>? <<<< CTRL+C pressed here >>>>> q:/home/jakob# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [translucent] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid5 hdh[4] hdg[3] hdf[2] hde[1] hdb[0] 142691840 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU] unused devices: <none> --