-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/2012 09:56 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:02 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> 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. -- > > I was also troubled by the 'endless' stream of asterisks. > > Perhaps some sort of heuristic - like disk size(s) divided by > 'average' file size. Also don't know the value of one asterisk - is > it 100 files? > > A few more experiments would give something that would be +- 30% > This would be better than nothing. > > Bob G > > -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux > > If you have huge file systems with all the same file type on them. it is probably better to just mount the drive with a label. Then autorelabel will ignore the file system. No reason to put labels on a huge file system all with the same label. man setfiles ... -p show progress by printing * every 1000 files. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8pZtQACgkQrlYvE4MpobMp1ACfQJQGte2uehDIlYJhF5hRB0fR +jUAn1UQtm4xMPEi13QGf2m4R46t7hWi =R1YP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux