This is the error during boot: reiser file system check on root fo device mapper setup Fsck 1.34 (25-jul-2003) Reisers super block in block 16 on 0x305 of format 3.6 with standard journal Blocks (total.free) 2622603/2542804 by 4096 bytes Filesystem is not clean Partition /dev/hda5 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it fsck.reiserfs /dev/hda5 failed (status 0x10) run manualy etc/init.d/kbdL line1 : locale command not found etc/init.d/kbdL line1 : /usr/bin/tty no such file or directory I have run dd if=/dev/hda5 /of=/dev/null I have run tar -cf /dev/null /mnt without error I have booted knoppix and run reiserfs --fix-fixable /dev/hda5 ########### Replaying journal.. 0 transactions replayed Checking internal tree..finished Comparing bitmaps..finished Checking Semantic tree: finished No corruptions found There are on the filesystem: Leaves 1836 Internal nodes 13 Directories 1795 Other files 22255 Data block pointers 69667 (8 of them are zero) Safe links 0 ########### reiserfsck finished at Sun Apr 3 03:36:21 2005 ########### When I reboot I get the same error that the partition was not clean.