From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 16:18:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54F716A7E1 for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:18:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc6-cmbg1-0-0-cust82.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.10.236.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFE043D5A for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 16:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.62 #0) id 1FeaK9-000BiY-CN by authid for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 17:17:05 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 17:17:05 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060512161705.GB34035@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44649FA9.6080700@netfence.it> <20060512105823.0ff46f01.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060512152444.GA34035@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <4464ADF1.20705@netfence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5I6of5zJg18YgZEa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4464ADF1.20705@netfence.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: danielby@slightlystrange.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on catflap.slightlystrange.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: fsck way too slow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 16:18:47 -0000 --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Daniel Bye wrote: >=20 > >So, as jerry said, it's a Bad Idea to have just one partition, for many > >reasons, this being among them. >=20 >=20 > Ok, I know that. Still this wasn't the point of my request. I've been=20 > answered the first questions, but I'm still wondering on the second one... Yeah, I realise that. I'm afraid I don't know why fsck should take so long on your disk. Chuck suggested some things you might try, though. It sounds to me like it might be failing hardware, but you need to try some diagnostics, and not take my word for it! Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEZLUBixf5fBYiFmoRAiMuAKCdfIAxtoRs4vjl5k1299f76kKvbwCfRPU9 WoU0oLmRhHZT6miwRhBw0ik= =qgj3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa--