This is a Seagate ST3000DM001, all one volume, for my sister's DVR on which I've been doing this volume recovery work. The default setup that mkfs.xfs returns with no parms supplies is this: meta-data=/dev/sda1 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=183141568 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=732566272, imaxpct=5 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=357698, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 and that takes about 3 minutes to mkfs a 3TB drive. Anyone have some thoughts they wish to cast upon the waters about either part of that? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs