Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-59.9 In case of an unclean shutdown or system crash fsck run at boot time can take several hours to complete, printing thousands of useless messages like
Clearing orphaned inode 123456789 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100700, size=28) It depends of the speed of your console, of course, but using a terminal it is pretty unlikely that you get anything faster than 115200 bits/sec. Some VGA consoles are not noticeable faster than this, either. I had the chance to verify this problem on a master-backup system: - On the master the fsck is running for >16 hours and is not completed yet. It writes to a terminal with 9600 bits/sec. - On the backup (manually migrated to become the new master) the file system check of the same partition took about 30 minutes, using "fsck -y >& fsck.log". It wrote 54 MByte logfile. This could be improved. Init is sysvinit-core. Thanx in advance Harri