Re: mke2fs checking bad blocks
On 2009-08-09 11:51 +0200, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have beening running following command to check an external USB 1 TB
> disk for more than 15 hours. I am not clear if the right corner of
> 244190007 is the maxinum blocks it should check or not. If it is, it
> seems that it has already exceeded the total blocks, but it is still
> running. What should I do, just quit it?
>
> ~$ /sbin/mke2fs -c /dev/sda1
> mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
This is an old version, and it may be that you hit bug #411838¹ or some
other problem that has been fixed in the meantime. I would definitely
try a newer version on such a big filesystem.
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> 122109952 inodes, 244190008 blocks
This indicates that the right boundary of 244190007 is at least close.
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/411838
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