Good day, I am using SuSE 9.2 and SuSE 9.3. The partition in question is ReiserFS. We have an image set on disk that we wish to backup. Each image is about 20 Kb and I think there are more than a million files in the directory. I cannot get a directory listing – the shell falls over when running ls (I’m logged out after about 20 minutes of hard disk activity and nothing coming to the screen). I cannot remove the files – the same as running ls. I tried to put it all in a tarball – after 5 days I stopped it. The tarball was 2 GB at that time. I need to use Midnight Commander to copy the files – everything else falls over. After copying for 2 days, I had a power failure and stopped the process as the UPS was running out of power. At that point the machine was so slow it took 30 seconds to serve a page through Apache that normally took less than 1 second. Can anyone suggest a way of copying this image set to another hard disk or DVD that will not take forever to do? If possible with a progress bar – indicating how much files there are and how much files still need to be copied. I could easily regenerate the images (it took 8 days to do it) if there were a better way to save these files on disk to make it easier to manage. Any thoughts on this one? Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.17/85 - Release Date: 30/08/2005