On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:14:06 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Dale Snell wrote: > > > This shouldn't be related to the partition alignment at all. Other > > than that, I'm not sure what to say. What do you mean by "quick > > format"? > > Slackware allows a quick format that does not check for bad > blocks. When I specify that for sda1 mounted on /, control returns > immediately. When I specify that for sda3 mounted on /home, there's > the usualy delay as the fs is installed on the partition. > > Think I need to check for bad blocks on sda1 because I get the > error of insufficient disk space on sda1 and that should not be the > case. Hrm, yeah, you probably should. It takes time to format a partition, so control should never return immediately. Especially in your case, where sda1 is 300Gig. That's going to take time to format, regardless of whether you're checking for bad blocks or not. As a test, you could try hooking this disk into your regular system. Then you could do the formatting directly from the command line, and see how long things take. Just to see if the installer is ignoring an error or something. You can also set mke2fs to be verbose, and it'll give you all sorts of info while it works. --Dale -- The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
