Seeking a unix expert - does anyone know how one would check the integrity of a EXT3 file system of a disk contained in a USD caddy - from either a Windows system or ubuntu?

Try looking at fsck

Dan.

Thanks - yielded useful info.

e2fsck -f -C0 /dev/sdXXX

-f = force check
-C0 = show a progress bar
/dev/sdXXX = where the partition is