Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I bought a 8TB hard drive. Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the >> exact model info. It seems to be slow. > > What's the output of: > > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda > > (Assuming it's the sda drive.) > > >
Well, after a lot more googling, I decided to start over and then decided to use a different tool. I ran dd for several GBs and then used gparted to partition and format the drive with ext4. Right now, it is doing the format part. One thing I noticed. When it is formatting, it takes HOURS. When I did it the first time, from command line using mkfs.ext4, it took hours. So far, it's been working on it for well over 30 minutes. I don't recall it taking anywhere near this long on the 6TB drive I have. I might add, I did it through a USB port. The fact it takes so long to format makes me thing something is up somewhere. Is that normal?? I also got this during a attempt to put a file system on it a bit ago. root@fireball / # mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -L 8tb-backup -b 4096 /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) Creating filesystem with 1953506129 4k blocks and 244191232 inodes Filesystem UUID: 2b987f80-b9e2-45e0-8dda-b25f0901e213 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (262144 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks. That last line is something I've never seen before. If it doesn't finish soon, I may check the sata cables and such. Maybe one of them isn't plugged in good, has dust on it or something. Something isn't working right here. Open to ideas tho. Dale :-) :-)
