From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 14:08:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40084106566B for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@us.army.org) Received: from mail.datausa.com (mail.datausa.com [216.150.220.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF4098FC0A for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:08:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from info@us.army.org) Received: (qmail 93368 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jun 2009 07:35:39 -0600 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.wcubed.net) (freebsd@wcubed.net@216.150.220.219) by mail.datausa.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2009 07:35:39 -0600 Received: from 76.25.231.251 (SquirrelMail authenticated user freebsd@wcubed.net) by webmail.wcubed.net with HTTP; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:36:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <56942.76.25.231.251.1244295367.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:36:07 -0600 (MDT) From: "John Nielsen." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: fsck on 1.5TB drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jn07texas@yahoo.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:08:29 -0000 Hey guys... I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty. When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds fsck as usual and on all the other partitions, seem to take the "normal" amount of time. When it gets to the dirty /bkup however, fsck takes about 30 minutes - on an empty partition. On top of that, running a df shows that as much as 2GB of the partition is in use. There's a .snap directory off /bkup, but I can't ls it without the shell hanging. Is this normal behavior? Why is the fsck taking so long on an empty drive? What's the .snap dir for since I haven't run any dumps? Disk access on the rest of the system seems fine, so it doesn't appear to be an issue with the RAID itself. Thanks.