Gene Czarcinski <gene@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > [...] In all cases, I have formatted the root ("/") partition as > ext4. I have noticed that formatting the partition for ext4 seems > to take considerably more wall-clock time for ext4 partitions than > my previous experience with ext3 partitions. [...] I have seen the same thing; this sort of thing appeared to help: mkfs.ext4 -O uninit_bg -E lazy_itable_init=1 - FChE -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list