Linux Disk Editor

Thanks for your reply.

Have just tried the partition mounted and unmounted.
Ran e2fsck -f /dev/hda4 no problems.
hda4 is a primary partition.
Did try on logical VFAT (dos) partitons , same problem.
Tried other primary partitions , same problem

Hope you can understand the below info.

I do have a non standard partition layout and can be confusing.
Maybe the problem ?

I use a third party boot/partition manager PLOP that permits having more then 4 primary partitions on hdd .
Note: only 4 primary or 3 pri. and 1 extended are in the MBR while the other partitions will be seen by any OS as unalloted space.

Below are how the partitions are physically on hdd, and seen by linux.

Pri 1 tho 4 'Windows' (unalloted space 80g bytes)
hda3 Extended partition seen as /dev/hda5 tho hda8
Pri 5 tho 7 'Windows' (unalloted space 20g bytes)
hda1 SuSe / root Note: GRUB is installed into this partition.
hda2 Mepis
hda4 ext3 "test and empty partition."

hda5 DOS
hda6 DOS
hda7 swap
hda8 /home