On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 12:32 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Forced fsck operations on huge filesystems (500GB) are > taking a very long time during bootup. Some typical > situations: > > /dev/sdb6 448936380 399105212 27026504 94% /w > /dev/sdc2 500028036 444954060 29674008 94% /v > /dev/sdc1 461404200 305735808 132230364 70% /y > > How can I reduce this time? Would converting these to ext4 > speed up fsck? Is converting to ext4 an option yet? > > Can something be done in the background > on a mounted file system to check it or at least minimize the > time it takes to run fsck on it? Are you running fsck with every boot? In ext3 this is usually unnecessary. Most boots use the journal, which is very fast. I have a 500GB filesystem that's over 60% full, and is on an external USB disk so it's not particularly fast, but the check time is only a few seconds. Use tune2fs to adjust the number of mounts to wait before using auto-fsck. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
