Once upon a time, Marcelo Magno T Sales <marcelo.sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Sorry! I'm using ext3. Thought it's journal would be more efficient > than it has been. The normal use of a journal is to prevent file _system_ corruption (e.g. keep the directories all pointing to the right files and such). That doesn't help prevent files from having corrupted contents. However, ext3 does also offer a data journaling mode that might help (at the expense of performance). See "man tune2fs" and look at the journal_data option. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.