Hum...
I have a big ext2 partition of 9Go ;-) and fsck takes a longer time to do it
(I would say 10/15/20 minutes, I don't remember exactly). Note that my
partition is maybe 90% empty : it can be important to say it!
Maybe it is so slow because there are a lot of copies of the inode table
every where on the disk (for reliability/security) and maybe fsck tries to
check each of them?
I don't know at all, it is just an assuming. But it could be interesting to
take a look at fsck sources, just to know what and how it does!
Maybe it does also a little defragmentation ?
I don't know if it is possible to change the fsck speed, but you can change
the 'maximal count', with tune2fs (I'm not sure about the spelling, but a
man dumpe2fs will give the right command and dumpe2fs will tell you what is
the max count and what is the current mount count).
Regards
Mathieu
> -----Original Message-----
> Any idea why is so slow ?, I have a 2Gb partition and it
> takes 2-3 minutes
> every time it checks the fs.
> What times are employed under a 15 or 30 Gb ext2 partition ?.
> Is there another
> tool to speed up thist check ?.
