On 01/21/2010 02:01 PM, William John Murray wrote: ... > Any more ideas? What happens if you read the whole file system: cd / tar c --one-file-system -f - .|dd of=/dev/null bs=1M dd should tell you the size of the generated tar archive. It may take a while... Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines