Re: What is max size of ext2fs?

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:59:44 +1300


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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