Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-19 Thread Towncat
On jan. 18, 21:40, Towncat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-18 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this safely. When

badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Towncat
Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core Duo 1,6, 2GB memory. Tc

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Shuler
On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there something wrong? The machine is a Core

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:11:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/12/08 15:29, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:11:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 09:40:36AM -0800, Towncat wrote: I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours and is just over three thirds. Is this really supposed to be so slow, or is there

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:14:13AM -0800, Towncat wrote: On jan. 12, 19:20, Michael Shuler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/2008 11:40 AM, Towncat wrote: /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18