OK, so "a minute" turned into several hours. It got through the first FSCK fairly quickly (couple of hours), then gave a message about duplicate blocks and started again. I think it was blocks, this was quite some time ago now. Anyway, here we are, seven and a half hours after it started and it's *still* running. Is this normal ? It seems to be checking through inodes one by one and is currently up to about 260,000.

Steve.