I would create a NEW partition THEN run -b :) On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Pete Nuwayser wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:04 AM, greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote: > >> I will also probably get a new disk to go in the machine before I >> install Linux again.... Or should I chance the disk? > > I'd run e2fsck -b on it first -- greg pryzby