e2fsck takes a long time

Chiu, PCM (Peter) P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk
Wed Apr 28 11:04:24 UTC 2004


Hi,

This probably is an old issue.

Is there anyway to speed up the ext3 file system check at boot up time?

One of our systems got 2 x 1.6TB RAIDs, and they took over 10 hours to
complete.
 
They are ext3 file systems, are there more efficient file systems to get
round this?

Peter





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