my issue involves close to a 100,000 directories and more :D well then, even formatting just a directory to support reiserfs, id have to backup my data just to be on the safe side. thanks for the tip guys. ill let you know -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070928/f42deee2/attachment-0004.html>