Re: [CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down

2020-02-04 Thread pchris . bci
> Be patient... You are likely correct as the [ext4lazyinput] process is now gone. Probably finished up last night as the drives are quiet now. For completeness: > What did "cat /proc/mdstat" say? # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdc1[1] sdb1[0] 3906885440

Re: [CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down

2020-02-03 Thread Robert Nichols
On 2/3/20 3:13 PM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Hi, Ext4 is (slowly) initializing group blocks as far as I can remember. Patience should do the trick :) Indeed. See the manpage for mkfs.ext4 and scroll down to the "lazy_itable_init" extended option, which is enabled by default. -- Bob Nichols

Re: [CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down

2020-02-03 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Hi, Ext4 is (slowly) initializing group blocks as far as I can remember. Patience should do the trick :) HTH, Le 3 février 2020 20:28:27 GMT+01:00, Chris Pemberton a écrit : >I updated my backup server this weekend from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. >OS disk is SSD, /dev/md0 are two 4TB WD

Re: [CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down

2020-02-03 Thread sberg
> - Original Message - > From: Chris Pemberton [mailto:pchris@gmail.com] > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 13:28:27 -0600 > Subject: [CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down > > I updated my backup server this weekend from CentOS 7 to CentO

[CentOS] Hard disk activity will not die down

2020-02-03 Thread Chris Pemberton
I updated my backup server this weekend from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. OS disk is SSD, /dev/md0 are two 4TB WD mechanical drives. No hardware was changed. 1. wiped all drives 2. installed new copy of 8 on system SSD 3. re-created the 4TB mirror /dev/md0 with the same WD mechanical drives 4. created