On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Marcel van Beurden wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of shrinking a 900 GB ext3 partition on a USB2 > connected disk using Gparted (0.5.1-1ubuntu3). The whole thing has > been running for 2 days now and I'm curious whether it will ever > finish. Right now the resize2fs (sub)process is using 99% of one > 3.2GHz Xeon core (totalling up to 32 hours of CPU time so far). > > Is resize2fs being stuck and hanging forever, or is it just taking a > lot of time? I wouldn't expect resizing to be so CPU intensive. > Hi, is not possible to answer this with just the information you provided. I would expect to see soft lockup warnings on the system log if it was really stuck. A stack trace of the resize2fs process (sysrq-t) might give some information about what's going on. You're using a too olde resize2fs so, may be possible you're using a buggy version too, but I'm not the best person to say if there was any bug on resize2fs which might be causing this. Also, I hope you're trying to shrink the filesystem with this umounted :-) > Is there any way to check whether it is still doing anything and to > estimate when it will be done? > How corrupt will be filesystem be when I press ctrl-C? > > Version of resize2fs is: 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) > Version of linux kernel: 2.6.32-40-generic-pae > > Regards, > Marcel > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- --Carlos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
