Hi, On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:51:41PM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > I couldn't find any explanation as to what a *full* fsck is, under what > conditions would it be triggered. Can one force it manually ? fsck -f > Is there any back of envelope calculation to estimate the time it would > take on x GB of disk with Y MB of journal data or maybe there is some > other dependency on block size and number of inodes on the system etc Full fsck time has basically no dependency on the journal size: it depends on the filesystem size. Recovery has basically no dependency on the filesystem size: it depends on the journal size. Journals are much smaller than filesystems, which is why recovery is faster than a full fsck! Cheers, Stephen
