hard drive partitions

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth J.Francois on 8/8/2001 13:28 as having spake thusly:
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\_ On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0700, David A. Sinck wrote:
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\_ > Oh, and speaking from experience, running fsck on a 9G / partition (I
\_ > did *not* set it up) sucks eggs.  Big nasty rotten eggs.  And momma
\_ > bird is there pecking your eyes out while you do it too.  Then the
\_ > trifids come over because of the noise, and they make it so dark that
\_ > you are likely to be eaten by a grue.  30+m to fsck that partition.  
\_ > 
\_ > David
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\_ > 
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\_ Check how you do an mke2fs.
\_ 
\_ I have a 44GB drive, one partition, 
\_ that takes no more than 5 minutes to fsck.
\_ 
\_ I only store tar files and mp3s on the drive.

That might help, the partition in question has / on it, and so has
billions of bitty files, not convenient large chunky files.  Dunno,
I'm not a fs expert, but I play one on plug.  :-)

\_ IIRC a 44GB drive without setting the number of inodes creates
\_ about 3 or 4 million inodes by default which really 
\_ slows things down.

Bing, we have a winner of why you need to do some things by hand.  9G,
30 minutes fsck because of a default install (I'm assuming).

Know thy data.

David