On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > One thing I have been meaning to ask , now that large hard drives are > becoming cheap enough, is how long does it take for bootups to complete > the fsck tasks on say a 120 gig drive, with a modern AMD1800 Athlon, or > a similar P4 processor. > > Currently I have a 40gig drive, and usually when required it fsck's at > least 3 of my partitions, I have about 7 partitions it likes to keep a > track on. If I bought a 120gig drive to add as say a secondary drive > would it take for ever to fsck on these bootups. > It should be pretty short if you use a journaling file system like reiserfs or ext3. If you stick with ext2, it would be loooonnnngggg. You'll probably get better performance out of reiserfs on a disk that big, as ext3 does not scale as well.
-- Greg
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