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

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>]

On 07:24 Fri 09 May     , NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> >     * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
> >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_needed_to_fsck_the_filesystem
> 
> Unfortunately, even that answer does not contain a formula to calculate the
> needed memory (or time).
> 

In my case, the fsck took about 24 hours - amd64 machine with 1 terabyte ram
running kernel 2.4.18.

thanks,

Mitchell Laks
 


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