Yaron, you have to run tune2fs to add journaling support for that partition. Then you should be able to mount the partition as ext3. You should definitely run fsck.ext2 on that partition before you run tune2fs. Clean everything up first. Then, run tune2fs to add journalling. Then remount the partition as ext3. NAME tune2fs - adjust tunable filesystem parameters on second extended filesystems SYNOPSIS tune2fs [ -l ] [ -c max-mount-counts ] [ -e errors-behavior ] [ -i interval-between- checks ] [ -j ] [ -J journal-options ] [ -m reserved-blocks-percentage ] [ -r reserved- blocks-count ] [ -s sparse-super-flag ] [ -u user ] [ -g group ] [ -C mount-count ] [ -L volume-name ] [ -M last-mounted-directory ] [ -O [^]feature[,...] ] [ -U UUID ] device HINT: Make sure you set your fs types in /etc/fstab to "auto". That way, you can still mount the parititons as ext2 on a kernel that doesn't support ext3. (Very nice for recovery operations.) -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. Send email w/the Subject: "get help"