Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:59:44 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: What is max size of ext2fs? |
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On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:21:05AM +0100, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> The magic number which I cannot remember ever having been posted is the > time it takes to fsck such a partition.
without _too_ much data - 400GB will fsck in less than a minute. With lots of large (1GB+) files, it takes somewhat longer...
With plenty of small files, it probably won't finish this millenium.
-cw
(btw -- tested with big black SGI disk vault system, which presumably does fancy stuff internally to speek things up)
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