Re: e2fsck with millions of files

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Sean Carolan wrote:
> I have a large (1.5TB) partition with millions of files on it.  e2fsck has
> been running nearly 12 hours and is still on "Checking directory
> structure".
>  Any tips for speeding this along?

Kill it. And make sure it doesn't try to do it. There's a known bug with
fsck (at least I think it was with CentOS, not *bleah* FC13). On large
drives that we're doing online backups, it hits 70% and that's all she
wrote: it never ends, and I need to kill it.

          mark

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