On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:23 PM George R Goffe via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for the responses. > > Richard: it takes that long because of the "-c -c" option. As Berend says, > it runs badblocks which "beats up a block at a time" writing/reading > patterns... looking for errors. The man page for mke2fs is helpful. > Sorry, I see it now in the subject line, I just didn't see it in the body of the original mail... Would using smartctl to let the drive check itself help? # smartctl --test=long /dev/sdc Or you can initiate it and monitor the progress from the disk utility. Last option... If the case isn't too difficult to open temporarily install it to a desktop computer to speed things up. Thanks, Richard
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