> someone mentioned adding "option lookup-unhashed on". So I tried that > and then went through and manually stat()ed each file that was > originally on the filesystem and only then did the files reappear. I > can't imagine what one would do if there were several million files on > the filesystem prior to an expansion? i believe you do, but normally one does the stat'ing by doing a ls -lR <mnt point> > /dev/null Matt