Hey, the list moved, but I did not move with it. What did I miss? By the way, I am looking for a tool, specifically on solaris is available, but if not, source code would do. The tool that I am looking for is one that will show file layout on a disk by blocks and some way to correlate inode to blocks or filename to blocks. To give you a reason why: During our backup process which uses legato networker, I am experiencing a high %busy and high avserv as shown with sar/iostat. One theory that I have is that our files (which change frequently) are scattered around the disk and causing massive mechanical movements while backing them up. I am trying to find a way to show this graphically or at least by track/sector. Has anyone heard of such a thing? thanks in advance. Clinton