Hello, So I have seen this suggested as the way to trigger self-heal find /mnt/webcluster2 -depth -type f -exec head -n 1 {} \; >/dev/null I am using fedora 8. according to the man pages -n 1 will tell head to print the first line of every file. There is also the -c flag find /mnt/webcluster2 -depth -type f -exec head -c 1 {} \; >/dev/null Which the man page says will print the first 1 byte(s) of every file. Would the -c 1 be better/more efficient than -n 1. If my understanding is correct, it would only have to read the first byte instead of the first line. ? Brandon