Where did my post go? Oh my... in a fit of stupidity I think I just replied to the email the board sends me when there is a new post . Of course this only underlines my reply "fsck is the command you're looking for. File systems, disks, and data can be quite complicated and I am not qualified to give you any advice when using fsck."
Posting your /etc/fstab or the output of "fdisk -l" will certainly help confirm that you are indeed using all ext3 filesystems