Christian Zimmermann writes
I will not do anything until there is a change in disk.
I thought you wanted to reboot in the 2.6 kernel, move things to the new disk...
If my theory is correct, I can't move things to the new disk without high risk of the machine going down when fs is corrupt with bad block. The best way is to reboot and force a file system check by setting the max count tune2fs -c 1000 rid stop reboot It will check the file system, but I don't know how to force it to use the -c and -y options. Thus I recommend to run in single user mode (second grub line), and remount the root file system read only. mount -o ro,remount /dev/sda1 e2fsck -c -y /dev/sda1 It sholud be done in a few hours. Then reboot, again into single user, and start to rsync, as detailed in previous mails. Then run grub, exchange disks etc... Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel