On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:33:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and > played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night > due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck > complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The > machine booted cleanly as far as I can tell. > > So, something went bad and I managed to sneak around it for a while > and now I'm sort of living with the machine wondering what to do. Check the disk with smartmontools. -- Neil Bothwick All mail what i send is thoughly proof-red, definately!