garyk at garyk-laptop:~$ ls .ICEauthority -al -rw------- 1 garyk garyk 1710 2010-04-29 14:03 .ICEauthority garyk at garyk-laptop:~$ locate .ICEauthority garyk at garyk-laptop:~$ This is on sda 5 (I think or it is 6) not sda 1 where the problem is. gk