On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 dec 14, 20:07:26, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I don't know how effective this check is though. But I've NEVER > > had a dirty partition reported in the past 8 years or so. The nice > > thing is it is a very fast check. My 16GB / checked in less than 5 > > seconds, and the 205GB /home in about 10 seconds or so. (I didn't > > actually time this. Subjective estimates.) However, it seemed TOO > > quick. Never thought about that until today when I actually sat > > there and watched the whole shutdown-reboot sequence. Usually I > > don't. > > If you want *really* fast fsck on boot switch to xfs ;)
15 seconds extra, a couple times a year isn't all THAT bad. FWIW, I think I found out why ext4 fsck's faster than ext3 (or the other exts). Seems ext4 only checks the part of the filesystem that's been used/writtento/etc. instead of the entire filesystem/partition. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141213164039.13973...@debian7.boseck208.net
