[plug] How long to fsck 160 GB?

[Patrick Coleman]

On 6/26/06, Bernd Felsche <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> As people are in the habit of storing copies of something
> "important" in every place they think fit, filesystem sizes have
> grown massively over the past decade. And they still can't find what
> they want... Which I often assume is the work already done for them.
>
> So more drives have been added and files shuffled onto a stripey
> logical volume.
>
> Previous partition removed from the partition table and the
> remaining filesystem (Reiser) told to grow from 100 to 150 GB to
> fill the space. Minor problem.  Strange error.
>
> So start up fsck on the filesystem -- now 2 hours later; still not
> finished.

I've fscked about 30GB worth of reiser, not full, and it took a while
(probably about 30 minutes; I wasn't timing). So 2 hours or more for a
complete tree scan would be about right.

I ran into some wonderful problems with reiser - what was happening
was that the filesystem was corrupted in such a way as to hard-lockup
the machine randomly. The machine (a VPS in this case) wouldn't do
anything - keyboard wasn't even working. fscking succeeded happily
without resolving anything. I ended up creating another partition
(thankyou LVM) the same size, formatting with ext3 and copying the
data across.

-Patrick
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