Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition
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" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
> > > > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem?
>
> I had only 1G ram, but the raid was a 1T hardware raid.
>
> >
> > I don't suppose you know how much memory it used? If your / fs isn't 1
> > TB, and you have 24 hrs to spend, you could check just that 1 TB
> > filesysem with top (or something) running and see.
>
> I did peak once via ssh while I was running fsck.ext3 (at that
> time which was close to hour 20 ). As I recall I thought I would see
> large numbers in the %cpu and %mem columns. I dont remember
> exactly what I saw, but it was something like 10% cpu and 10% mem
> but I can't swear. It certainly was not hogging more. I perhaps should
> have done something with nice to make it more agressive...
Nice wouldn't have helped; it was probably waiting on IO.
Doug.
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