Formating a big partition with mke2fs

[Raffaele Sandrini <rasa2@gmx.ch>]

hi

I tried to format a 40GB partition with mke2fs.

I typed:
mke2fs -b 4096 -i 4096 <path to partition>

After writing 135 of 12215 (or similar) tables the programm processes 
very slow and was not finished after one hour formating... after one 
hour it was on the 145 table.

Where is the problem here? Since now i never had problems foramtting a 
partition and it went very quick each time.

cheers,
Raffaele