> you try running a e2fsck on it ? Yes, but it was /home which was always busy, although I stoped every process I could think of using files in /home. Isn't there a tool to check which process is using a certain part of the filesystem?
> run e2fsck -c too, i think that is the option to check for bad blocks. if > its on the root partition you'll have to bring the box down, fastest way > is to init 1, mount -o remount,ro / and run e2fsck on it then mount -o > remount,rw / and init 2 to get back to normal In the meantime I just rebootet the machine (it always hurts but it worked...). But thanks for the tip! What could have caused this I/O error anyway? Stef