On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 5:30 AM George R Goffe via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a 2TB HDD with a possibly major problem. I have cleared the data > from it and have tried to run "mke2fs -t ext4 -j /dev/sdc1" but after 24 > hours it had just finished the 0xaa phase and started reading when the > drive seemingly dropped ready and was re-assigned as a new device to > /dev/sdf. Argh. I did get an ended message with an ending block number. I'd > like to restart at that point in time and continue the media check. I don't > see anything in the mke2fs man page though. > > Has anyone seen or heard of a way to do this? > Why did it take that long? Even on large drives mke2fs (or mkfs, mkfs.ext4) should take seconds to maybe a minute, not 24 hours. I think that's your primary problem. The whole drive isn't written to when creating any modern filesystem. Also, journaling should be on by default for ext3/4 formats otherwise there's no real benefit over ext2. Thanks, Richard
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