Thanks for the replies on how to deal with bad blocks on reiserfs; for the meantime, I managed to solve my problem (unable to use dpkg as several files in /var/lib/dpkg/lists were corrupt and unmoveable) by simply renaming the "lists" folder "lists-BADBLOCKS", creating a new lists folder, copying everything over from the old folder, and replacing the ones I couldn't access with those from a similarly configured machine. Worked.
Now to back up, and hope the drive doesn't die tooo soon. Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
