I've been running an fsck on a file system right now for ~4hrs ... its currently in '** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts', and iostat 1 is showing: tty da0 pass0 pass1 cpu tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id 0 115 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 1 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 16.00 1 0.02 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 16.00 5 0.08 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 0 38 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 50 0 0 0 50 with *very* occasional KB/t of 16.0 ... doing a ps shows CPU time is increasing, so I'm assuming that it is still doing something: # ps aux | grep fsck root 40 99.0 4.5 185756 185796 p0 R+ 6:55PM 218:14.14 fsck -y /dev/da0s1h # ps aux | grep fsck root 40 99.0 4.5 185756 185796 p0 R+ 6:55PM 218:15.04 fsck -y /dev/da0s1h # ps aux | grep fsck root 40 99.0 4.5 185756 185796 p0 R+ 6:55PM 218:15.94 fsck -y /dev/da0s1h # ps aux | grep fsck root 40 99.0 4.5 185756 185796 p0 R+ 6:55PM 218:23.84 fsck -y /dev/da0s1h the long fsck is something I've had before (longest to date was 11hrs), but the almost negligible disk activity makes me wonder ... is Phase 4 supposed to be this "quiet"? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664