On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Tomas <s.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > Like the subject implies - I would like to know how long it should take for > a fsck to check a 300GB hdd. I think that my pc's fsck is checking a 300GB > for too long - about 45 minutes. And during install it took approximately > the same amount of time to format it. Is this normal?
45 minutes to run newfs is very excessive. To run fsck on something that big isn't unreasonable though. 15-30 sec per GB is normal I'd say.
