Hi Eric Thank you for your prompt reply. > It may be changing because files are being added & removed > at the time? As for the negative... I imagine you're right > What kernel and what coreutils are you using? 2.6.18-8.el5PAE #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 20:29:51 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Name : coreutils Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5.97 Vendor: CentOS Release : 23.el5_4.1 Build Date: Tue Oct 27 11:12:41 2009 Install Date: Wed Feb 9 17:41:18 2011 Build Host: builder16.centos.org Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: coreutils-5.97-23.el5_4.1.src.rpm Size : 9053932 License: GPLv2+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue Oct 27 23:47:24 2009, Key ID a8a447dce8562897 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ Summary : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts Description : These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. Filesystem 4K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 25393143 2685539 21396901 12% / File: "/" ID: 0 Namelen: 255 Type: ext2/ext3 Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096 Blocks: Total: 25393143 Free: 22707604 Available: 21396901 Inodes: Total: 26214400 Free: 26037500 I did many things,The server has recovered. Something about this bothers me Let's bring this matter to a close. You will hear from me again. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users