Hello Friends, Please guide how to solve this - $ pwd -> in /home/ / / / / su- [root@localhost chapter05]# ls -l total 12871303048 ?rwSr-s-wt 65470 4293328777 4291493851 4286840738 Nov 15 1969 coreutils.html ?rws-wSrwt 65478 4292673464 4290641894 4288544698 Oct 16 1969 dejagnu.html ?rws--Sr-T 65472 4293197728 4291166177 4286971814 Nov 6 1969 patch.html ?rwsr-S-wt 65447 4289658822 4287823814 4291100643 Oct 1 1969 settingenvironment.html ?rwSr-s--T 65472 4292738950 4290641887 4287102882 Nov 19 1969 tar.html ?rwsr-S--T 65469 4291493828 4289331165 4290314195 Oct 2 1969 toolchaintechnotes.html [root@localhost chapter05]# These files are on Logical volume type LVM2. and part of /home. These files are just samm html files. They were in good state and have been read sometime back. But now could not be deleted. Rest all others in this folder tree were OK and deleted. There were few other files also, in /lib directory corrupted like these, they were repaired by re-installation of respective RPMs; with help from this list. I have tried rm, cp on these files but without success. Saved above, as draft and then I did the blunder, reboot to level 1, (at grub prompt -> a 1 enter) # umount /home # fsck -f /home Now I realize my mistake /home is blank but boot time (show details) does indicated somefilescount/somebig-filescount. Is /home lost forever or some hope to revive? Thanks in advancce. -- Anil Kumar Shrama