Hello, I have a drive (a 250 GB external USB hard drive) which I wanted to convert to 256 byte inodes and start using as an ext4 drive (currently I use it as ext3). However, I started the tune2fs operation on 01 Nov 2008 02:27:34 -0400, and it is currently nearly 13 hours later, and the operation is _still_ going at 100% of one core and operating on the drive. Three questions: * Is this normal? * How long can I expect this process to continue? * Can it be (safely) interrupted if it will continue for a long time? I converted my home directory to ext4 without issue and so I (stupidly, I admit) did not take a backup of this 250 GB drive's contents before I started the conversion process. Oops. Lesson learned. My thinking at this point is that it would take _far_ less time to interrupt, backup, and just use mkfs.ext4 on the drive and then restore (about 2 hours instead of an unknown quantity which is already nearing 13 hours). Thanks, Mike Trausch -- My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus. http://www.trausch.us/
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