Hi all, I have a 1TB usb external disk Writing inode tables (mkfs command) is taking forever , like hours. Is that to be expected? -- Gerard Hooton. Department of Microelectronic Engineering U.C.C. Butler Building, Enterprise Centre, North Mall. Cork. Tel: +353 21 4904576 Fax: +353 21 4904573 http://www.ue.ucc.ie/