<div class="gmail_quote">Yorvyk <<a href="mailto:yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com" target="_blank">yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> No swap partition. Faulty drive or bad blocks? Have a look at /var/log/kern.log or run 'tail -f /var/log/kern.log' in a terminal to see what messages are coming up while this happens. </blockquote></div> Hi Yorvyk, You quoted my entire message so I don't know which of the problems you are refering to. I assume you are refering to the trashing during boot time. I didn't find anything in kern.log. I do hav however something in boot.log, see below : *********************** dosfsck 3.0.13, 30 Jun 2012, FAT32, LFN There are differences between boot sector and its backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 65:01/00, 90:33/0e, 91:c9/1f, 92:8e/be, 93:d1/74, 94:bc/7e, 95:f4/ac , 96:7b/22, 97:8e/c0, 98:c1/74, 99:8e/06, 100:d9/b4, 101:bd/0e, 102:00/cd , 103:7c/10, 104:88/eb, 105:4e/f5, 106:02/b4, 107:8a/00, 108:56/cd < TRIMMED FOR LEGIBILITY > , 109:40/16, 111:08/00, 113:13/19, 114:73/eb, 115:05/fe, 116:b9/54 , 488:61/00, 489:72/00, 490:72/00, 491:65/00, 492:72/00, 493:0d/00 , 494:0a/00, 505:ac/00, 506:bb/00, 507:c9/00 Not automatically fixing this. /dev/sda7: clean, 151494/610800 files, 798558/2441872 blocks /dev/sdb1: clean, 97122/30531584 files, 21668877/122096000 blocks (check in 2 mounts) /dev/sda5: clean, 2889/305824 files, 60577/1220932 blocks /dev/sda6: clean, 11/305824 files, 54364/1220932 blocks /dev/sda8: clean, 122670/28385280 files, 29715301/113525322 blocks /dev/sda1: 42565 files, 1085676/1219742 clusters ************************************** This thing has been annoying me for... like 5 to 10 years ! But I don't think it is too serious. It happens on the first partition of my first HDD: the FAT32 partition which hold Windows XP (the following partitions cater for a couple Linux installations: one for testing purposes, the last one for regular use). I tried formatting that partition and re-installing Windows, no luck, still got these errors. Then tried suppressing all partitions on that drive to start from a clean sheet... still no luck ! So I though ok, maybe the drive is indeed faulty, so I got a brand new one... still got these errors !! :-O So it was weird, but at least I knew the original was probably not faulty in the end. So I though maybe the drive controller on the mother board is somehow faulty ? So I replaced the motherboard, along with brand new cables (switched from IDE to SATA)... and the errors were still there ! this was now starting to look more strange than really scary anymore, so I eventually stopped worrying about it, especially since the drive never failed on me and never had I/O errors no suffered any data loss or anything... I just get these errors at every boot, but it's clearly not related to faulty hardware, and it has no adverse effect. So I came to the conclusion that it's just some problem specific to FAT32 file checking, the utility maybe is a bit buggy. That said, I would lobe to boot in TEXT mode to see what happens as the hard drive trashes, but unfortunately there is this graphical boot splash with a progress bar, which hides what's going on. I would love to get rid of the graphics and just get the old text mode we used to have, with a fat penguin/TUX in a corner of the screen, old fashion style :-) -- Vincent Trouilliez