[CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

On 05/06/2010 11:16 AM, 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
>    
What do you get from running 'iostat -kx 5' (be sure to wait until the 
second report) while the formatting is running?

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Benjamin Franz