On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Michael Shiloh < michaelshiloh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 08/11/2012 12:28 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012, Erez D wrote about "which filesystem": >> >>> hello >>> >>> i have and external USB hard-drive size 2TB, mounted as ext4. (ubuntu >>> 10.10 >>> amd64) >>> every time there is a power failure. i need to do a manual fsck on this >>> disk. and this takes around an hour ... >>> >> >> I have a 2 TB disk with ext3, and I don't have anything close to the 1 >> hour >> boots you report (even one minute looks excessive). >> >> Both ext3 and ext4 are journalling filesystems, meaning that after power >> failures, only a relatively small "journal" of the last modifications >> needs to be replayed, rather than going through the entire disk. >> >> Is it possible your filesystem for some reason has journalling disabled, >> or improperly configured? Try "tune2fs -l" on your filesystem and look >> for suspicious parameters. Look at "Filesystem features" and verify >> there is "has_journal". See that it doesn't force a full fsck every time >> ("Maximum mount count" can very well be -1 and "check interval" 0). >> >> >> > Might also be the disk going bad - perhaps check with the S.M.A.R.T. > utility smartmontools > > > erez@h53:~$ sudo smartctl /dev/sdb3 --all smartctl 5.40 2010-03-16 r3077 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Device: WD My Book 1110 Version: 2003 Serial number: WCAVY4118123 Device type: disk Local Time is: Sun Aug 12 11:28:16 2012 IDT Device does not support SMART Error Counter logging not supported No self-tests have been logged erez@h53:~$ :-( > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >
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