] Do you have logging turned on in this partition? (It should be off.) Yes, we've known about the problems with logging: /etc/vfstab has: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s5 /usr/vice ufs 2 yes nologging /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s6 /vicepa afs 3 yes nologging John