------- Original message ------- > From: <m.roth at 5-cent.us> > Sent: 18.2.'10, 18:21 > >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Henry Ritzlmayr >> <fedora-list at rc0.at>wrote: >>> nate wrote: >> > >>> > I don't bother changing the setting for local disks as it is >>> > usually pretty quick to scan them. You must have a pretty big >>> > and/or slow file system for fsck to take 2+ hours. >>> > >>> > This particular server has 2x 500GB HDD's with failry "full" XEN VM's >>> > on it, each with it's own LVM volumes, so I guess it's a bit more >>> > complex than a normal ext2 system :) > > Um, we've only got some cluster nodes with drives under 750G; most of > ours > have that, or 950G, and we're moving a lot to 1T, and some 1.5T. Then > there's large raid arrays. They take a *while* to fsck. Unless I'm having > serious disk problems, I've had to boot using fastboot as a kernel line > parm for grub. What about using a 'decent' file system, such as XFS? > mark Timo