Sitting on bottom of the screen at least 10 minutes after a <10 minute restore from local HD (sdb) filesystem to a freshly formatted local HD (sda) filesystem: ... var/tmp/systmed-private-yjMVq0/ var/yp/ var/yp/nicknames 185 100% 0.21kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#123808, to-chk=1/157964) var/yp/binding/ This looks like the end of the run, assuming rsync work in alphabetical order, as it appeared to be doing. # ps -A 1209 tty3 00:02:25 rsync 1210 tty3 00:00:04 rsync 1211 tty3 00:00:26 rsync These have not incremented over time, and rsync does not show up in top. # df ... /dev/sdb9 18155268 5175556 12041732 31% /mnt /dev/sda11 18155268 5175496 12041792 31% /media/s131 Should I Ctrl-C and assume all is well? If not, then what? Is rsync known to behave like this? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org