Hi- I just encountered some hard drive errors on bootup. A portion of my boot seqence is below: /dev/hda7 reached maximal mount count, check forced I then had a long disk read, followed by something to the effect of: hard drive has errors, run fsck MANUALLY, without options I entered the root pw, and got a prompt. I ran fsck on hda7 and received this message: i_faddr for inode 360590 (/usr/share/applnk/System/switchdesk.kdelnk) is 65536, clear<y>? I answered yes, and eventually got some "everything seems okay" messages from fsck, then rebooted, and everything seems to be all right now. But I'm curious what happened -- what does maximal mount count mean, and does the "i_faddr..." msg really tell me? Is there something I'm perhaps doing that I shouldn't be doing? (Is it a problem with not properly unmounting a windows drive?) Thanks again- -alan | note my new non-Whitman email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Bye-bye Whitman; I'll be writing from U of Arizona in August! |