[Tfug] e2fsck question

[Brian Murphy]

Let it run overnight before judging it dead.  You're probably in pass 1B
-- a scan for duplicate and/or bad blocks.  I expect a drive that size
to run for several hours.  With USB it might be a day.  As you've
noticed, the progress bar isn't very accurate.

Brian

Quoting Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com>:
> Well, I've killed and restarted e2fsck using the -y option and added -C 0
> to get a progress bar.  It ramped up to 2.7% done in about a minute (Pass
> 1) and has been sitting there for the last 15 minutes.  No other messages
> or warnings other than the initial warning that the disk contains errors.
>> From what I could tell, the program was between 3% and 4% done when I
> killed it.  Am I dealing with a seriously munged disk?  It is a new disk,
> written to once (a cp of about 100GB) on an FC3 system, and FEDEXed to me
> from Seattle.  I'm starting to think this is not a good way to transfer a
> large chunk of data.
>
> Jim
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