Re: fsck - anyway to increase verbosity to show point in process

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Max Pyziur wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.x on one ancient but reasonably reliable machine:
<snip>
> I am running some fsck's on some of the larger drives (750GB and 2TB) that
> are used for backups. There is a verbosity flag (-V); but because of the
> size of the drives along with slowness of the processor, the process is
> taking a long time.
>
> And there is no indication how much of the process has been completed
> (nothing like a %tage indicator), at least the way that I am running it.
>
> Is this expected, or is there some way of amping up the feedback?

-C gives you nice warm fuzzies, something for you to watch as you fall
asleep (it takes a *long* bloody while for big drives, he says from
experience.)

     mark

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