[plug] formatting large drives

Gavin Corfield gavin at twobluedots.com.au
Wed Mar 7 08:24:20 WST 2001


Jon Miller wrote:
> 
> Anyone knows approx. how long it should take to format a 15G drive in RH7.  In text mode there are no indication if the process is still going forward.


On my machine it took ~1 (?) hours to format each 3Gb partition.  It was
fearfully slow and only indication was it changing partition.

gavin



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