On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 17:11 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Keep in mind when you say that, the downtime in question > might be several days for a full fsck to run, depending > more on the number of files than the size of the filesystem. Is there some way you'all are formatting your Ext3 partitions that takes so long? I don't think has ever taken longer than 8 hours to fully fsck my Ext3 partitions on a multi-TB server -- and typically I only have 1-2 filesystems that need a full fsck and I'm _never_ down more than 1-2 hours. I'm wondering if it's becauase I'm typically using only 100GB (and _never_ more than 1TB) Ext3 filesystems. And I'm deploying 3Ware hardware RAID-10 and, limitedly, RAID-5 on servers that have PCI-X slots. I often find _extremely_poorly_ designed servers are the culprit, and not so much other issues. So maybe this is one of those "best practices" discussions we should have on another list? I just have to shake my head when I hear people talk about multi-day fsck runs. I've _never_ had that happen. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman