On 2015-02-10, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read > that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume without painful > swapping.
It vastly depends on the number of files you have on there. Here's an almost full 4TB drive... # df -hi /export Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/sd0d 3.6T 3.3T 124G 96% 1642 122292628 0% /export ... but it has only 1642 files and directories. Checking this takes all of 60 seconds and 83M of memory; # umount /export # \time -l fsck -f /dev/sd0d ** /dev/rsd0d ** File system is already clean ** Last Mounted on /export ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 1642 files, 444033559 used, 40503354 free (306 frags, 5062881 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) 60.37 real 14.21 user 4.29 sys 83688 maximum resident set size 0 average shared memory size 0 average unshared data size 0 average unshared stack size 513846 minor page faults 3 major page faults 0 swaps 0 block input operations 9 block output operations 0 messages sent 0 messages received 0 signals received 30962 voluntary context switches 19 involuntary context switches -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de