Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/12/2018 09:11, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote: >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> I bought a 8TB hard drive. Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the >>>> exact model info. It seems to be slow. >>> >>> What's the output of: >>> >>> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda >>> >>> (Assuming it's the sda drive.) >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Well, after a lot more googling, I decided to start over and then >> decided to use a different tool. I ran dd for several GBs and then used >> gparted to partition and format the drive with ext4. Right now, it is >> doing the format part. > > I'd still like to know what the output of "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda" is :P > > >
This is what it says right now. root@fireball / # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 7.3 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 16E55D4E-BA7D-463B-807F-0BE27A488E21 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 15628052479 15628050432 7.3T Linux filesystem root@fireball / # BTW, it's sdb but I know what you wanted. ;-) As it is, that was done with gparted. It is still trying to put a ext4 file system on it and it has been about a hour. If I recall correctly, it took several minutes on the 6TB drive a while back but nowhere near this long. There's not that much difference between 6TB and 8TB. I might add, I did a smartctrl -a for that drive, it took a good long while to retrieve the data. Generally, it comes back in seconds for other drives. It seems that everything is slow for that specific drive. While I was typing all that in, it came back with this. create new ext4 file system 01:05:26 ( ERROR ) mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L "8tb-backup" /dev/sdb1 01:05:26 ( ERROR ) Creating filesystem with 1953506304 4k blocks and 244191232 inodes Filesystem UUID: 49241f90-62c0-47bf-b3a0-32f2efaa3fed Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (262144 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: mke2fs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks. Yea, something isn't right here. Given I've tried two different tools, I'm going to check those cables and such. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
