On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/31/2012 05:06 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Y'know, folks, fsck -c gives you a clue that not only is it >> running, but a vague feel for how much longer it'll be. >> .autorelabel, esp with several 2TB drives in a system, gives >> screens and screens and screens of asterisks, with no clue if it'll >> *ever* finish (which matters, when I'm going to be leaving soon, >> and it needs to be up for an overnight backup....) >> >> mark >> >> -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux >> >> > Give me a mechanism to know how many files are on the file system and > I might be able to give you an idea. > > Basically this is doing a > > find / > > I don't think there is a way to know how many files are left. fsck walks inodes and knows how many inodes are in use in advance. I think you would have to use something like ftw(3) to count the files in advance (slow) or generate a guess based on the number of inodes in use (inaccurate). joe -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux
