yes! this was the faq that i was following and i ran the following

ro
umount /dev/hda4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync

i thought all was well but when i tried to do the copy i ran into the same error message..

should i have run something else??

tks

ed