Leith Brandeland wrote: > This is my first OpenBSD upgrade. I'm going from 3.9 to 4.0 and the > fsck -fp step seems to take a VERY long time. Is this normal? It has > been running for over an hour. The machine is a PII-233Mhz with 64MB > ram and a 30GB HD. > > Thanks.
It seems your dmesg was mysteriously removed from your message. Unfortunate, as it could shed some clues on more important details about your system than the marketing specs you provided. However, that kind of performance is not out of the question... 233MHz PII systems typically sold with probably 6G or smaller drives. A lot of them didn't have cutting-edge disk interfaces for their day (most OSs of that day didn't even enable UDMA by default, so why spend a couple extra dimes on super-fast ATA interface chips?). This is one of the very many reasons I keep saying "don't use your entire disk unless you need it!" (Now, if only I could figure out why people keep ignoring it). If you don't allocate it, it doesn't hurt you in fsck. Big, "new" drives + slow, old machines = interesting issues at times. Certainly, *I* won't tell you not to do it, but putting perfume on pigs doesn't change the basic characteristics of the pig. IF you have a big partition with lots of files that is not part of the core system (i.e., /home), remove it from the /etc/fstab file before starting the upgrade process, which will save you from running an fsck on those partitions. If your other partitions are appropriate sized, this can make your process a lot faster. Be glad you don't have a 250g drive on that machine. In addition to that much more disk to check, you'd be swapping. :) Nick.
