[CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

Tue Aug 31 13:19:55 UTC 2010
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:14:23AM -0500, Sean Carolan wrote:
> I have a large (1.5TB) partition with millions of files on it.  e2fsck has
> been running nearly 12 hours and is still on "Checking directory structure".
>  Any tips for speeding this along?

Yes -- use ext4. Otherwise, it's inevitable.


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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>