It means the estimate (127811k) was wrong and the filesystem is larger than the estimate. It must be dumping something, look for process activity on your client and server. There are five concurrent dump processes running for /dev/sda5: 404 ? S 0:00 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/sda5 408 ? S 0:00 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/sda5 409 ? S 0:01 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/sda5 410 ? S 0:01 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/sda5 412 ? S 0:01 dump 0usf 1048576 - /dev/sda5 They don't seem to be doing much: [root@scooby /root]# strace -p 404 wait4(-1, <unfinished ...> [root@scooby /root]# strace -p 408 read(19, <unfinished ...> [root@scooby /root]# strace -p 409 pause( <unfinished ...> [root@scooby /root]# strace -p 410 write(1, "%\317\301[\4\364s\6\227\245\312\250\307-\354\247\2\225"..., 6144 <unfinished ...> [root@scooby /root]# strace -p 412 pause( <unfinished ...> Processes 408 and 410 *are* in read/write calls, but they're not doing much. Is something wedged, and if so, why? Ben
