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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of fred smith Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 16:26 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes in total)
It is a recent Seagate sata HD.
MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB
Is this one of the new 4096-bytes-per-sector Seagate drives? If so, you need to do some research around the 'net to find recommended procedures for aligning partitions. without partitions properly aligned (so that they start on a 4096-byte boundary) things are said to get veeeerrrrrrry
ST3250824AS 250 Gbytes (488,397,168 bytes) 512 byte per sector.
sloooooooowwwwwww (though I have no personal experience of it, so I can't speak to HOW slow.)
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