Sean Carolan wrote: > I have a large (1.5TB) partition with millions of files on it. e2fsck has > been running nearly 12 hours and is still on "Checking directory > structure". > Any tips for speeding this along? Kill it. And make sure it doesn't try to do it. There's a known bug with fsck (at least I think it was with CentOS, not *bleah* FC13). On large drives that we're doing online backups, it hits 70% and that's all she wrote: it never ends, and I need to kill it. mark