Hi, When I use resize2fs to shrink a 153GB ext3 from about 53% full to about 55% of its original size (thus becoming about 98% full), then Pass 3, Scanning inode table, is CPU limited and a significant fraction of elapsed wall-clock time (tens of minutes out of more than an hour). Being CPU-limited for such a duration seems peculiar to me. The behavior is reproducible. The details are at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676683 including reports from oprofile. resize2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) input: 1071971/9863168 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 21597266/39423744 output: The filesystem on /dev/sdc2 is now 22989038 blocks long. real 69m52.167s user 26m29.431s sys 2m3.456s [I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.] -- John Reiser, jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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