Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:17:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: jn07texas@yahoo.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck on 1.5TB drive Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906061615250.91948@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <56942.76.25.231.251.1244295367.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> References: <56942.76.25.231.251.1244295367.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net>
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> 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" turn off background fsck. > 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 because snapshotting takes so much. and even worse - it doesn't work right at least when i tried in FBSD 6.2. Simply turn it off. BTW your backups are mostly big files or mostly small. make use of newfs options - MUCH less inodes, bigger blocks. Not only fsck is faster, but it's faster in normal use and you get less wasted space. reducing -m make sense too.
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