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Duh, I saw "UFS2" and read "EXT2" for some reason. I'm on a Mac OS X machine, so also UFS based. (Darwin has its roots in FreeBSD.) But yeah, most likely to be a bad drive. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 ________________________________ From: Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:09:07 -0400 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] UNIX webserver questions On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Kramer, Jack wrote: > It sounds like it to me. Is the filesystem ext2 or ext3? An ext3 > filesystem is slightly more survivable because of the journal - > however, both formats have the same underlying structure, so the > same tools work on either (ext2 tools just ignore journaling and > work directly on the drive). FreeBSD uses ufs. You can read more about McKusick's work at http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/ ./mk -- Matt Kolb <[log in to unmask]> Assistant Director Academic Technology Services Michigan State University