I just ran "tune2fs -I 256 /dev/sda3" and it took about an hour and forty minutes. The filesystem is about 33GiB, 3/4 full, ~85,000 inodes. The machine is a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, SATA disk. It seemed to be CPU-bound, soaking up a core for the whole run. Does this sound right? Running e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 from Debian unstable. -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html