<html><body>20090708 1520 GMT-5 I was using GIMP, opened a image that was 2GB in size and my system became unresponsive. I waited about ten minutes to see if it would recover and then finally did a hard boot. Now the system is doing its self check at start and it has errors: This is what I can see on the screen: Checking drive /dev/sdb6: 21% (stage 1/5, 175/573) eRROR READING BLOCK 5755204 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading indirect blocks of inode 1433606. /dev/sdb6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. fsc died with exit status 4 [fail] *File system check failed A log is being saved in /var/log/fsck/checkfs if that location is writable. Please repair the file system manually. *A maintenance shell will not be started. CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and result system boot. bash: no job control in this shell bash: groups: command not found bash: leespipe: command not found bash: Command: command not found bash: The: command not found bash: dircolors: command not found bash: Command: command not found bash: The: command not found root@wadesmart:~# That is all that is on the screen. Wade </body></html>