Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

2008-05-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
This is no answer to the question, although it may be of interest: There is an on-going discussion on the linux kernel mailing list about speeding up fsck for ext3, see, e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/13/3 -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:37:37PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? > In my case, the fsck took about 24 hours -

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 17:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >>> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? >>Linkname: Considera

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? > >Linkname: Considerations when creating ext3 filesystems - Ext4 > URL: > http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-08 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? Linkname: Considerations when creating ext3 filesystems - Ext4 URL: http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Considerations_when_creating_ext3_filesystems#Memory_n

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-08 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? some (rather old) information is contained in Linkname: E2fsprogs Release Notes URL: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html for example, it s

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

2008-05-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
You say its very slow. Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem? Does it take more memory for a larger fs in a linear fashion? E.g. OpenBSD needs 1 MB per 1 GB fs size to fsck. If the box has less memory than this, fsck hits swap and really slows down. Is this 1 T

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

2008-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/08 14:12, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I would like some feedback on what fsck is doing. How can I tell if it is > making progress or just > restore from backup? > > i just see > checking stage 1 or something > then nothing > > what to