On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > EXT3-fs error (device ide2(33,2)): ext3_free_branches: Read failure, > inode=196964, block=395195 Sorry I can't help you with the actual error. > Most of all in terms of importants, which drive is this on, hda or hde? /dev/hde2 (the 33,2 tells you this). Geoff.