thanks for the help, Tony. i finally checked the results of cat'ing to /dev/null, which found 11 troubled files. having removed them, am now running smartctl -t on umounted disk. > > # tar -cvf - --ignore-failed-read --one-file-system / \ > 2>/some/other/volume/tarfiles.txt | cat >/dev/null > > Good luck. > > -- ah... perhaps this will let me check dir files... will try after the smartctl test..... > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > charles zeitler Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law -Aleister Crowley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines