Roger Larsson <roger.larsson at norran.net> wrote: > > Andrew, any idea? I am running SuSE version of 2.4.19-4GB Nope. All I can assume is that the disk is really fragmented in the blockgroup where ext2 is trying to place that file. Go into /home/roger/.kde/share/config and do: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=4K count=50 and then take a look at foo's block layout.