On Feb 10 17:48:22, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2015-02-10, yary <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck
> > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read
> > that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume without painful
> > swapping.
>
> It vastly depends on the number of files you have on there.
> Here's an almost full 4TB drive...
FAQ4 still says
If you make very large partitions, keep in mind that performing
filesystem checks using fsck(8) requires about 1M of RAM per gigabyte of
filesystem size
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Does that still apply?
Jan
