On 05/06/2010 11:16 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes in total) > > It is a recent Seagate sata HD. > > MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB > What do you get from running 'iostat -kx 5' (be sure to wait until the second report) while the formatting is running? -- Benjamin Franz