>200GB in overhead? That's about 10%. Why so high? Because I took all the defaults. It was a test to see if I could break the 1TB barrier, so I could care less about efficiency. 5% went in to standard overhead as you suggested, and I suspect the rest went into superblocks, inode tables, etc. -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com