On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
I'm running CentOS 5.x on one ancient but reasonably reliable machine:
<snip> > I am running some fsck's on some of the larger drives (750GB and 2TB) that > are used for backups. There is a verbosity flag (-V); but because of the > size of the drives along with slowness of the processor, the process is > taking a long time. > > And there is no indication how much of the process has been completed > (nothing like a %tage indicator), at least the way that I am running it. > > Is this expected, or is there some way of amping up the feedback?
-C gives you nice warm fuzzies, something for you to watch as you fall asleep (it takes a *long* bloody while for big drives, he says from experience.)
Yes, I see. Thanks; and it is buried in the man page.
mark
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