fsck way too slow

[Daniel Bye]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Daniel Bye wrote:
> 
> >So, as jerry said, it's a Bad Idea to have just one partition, for many
> >reasons, this being among them.
> 
> 
> Ok, I know that. Still this wasn't the point of my request. I've been 
> answered the first questions, but I'm still wondering on the second one...

Yeah, I realise that.  I'm afraid I don't know why fsck should take so
long on your disk.  Chuck suggested some things you might try, though.
It sounds to me like it might be failing hardware, but you need to try
some diagnostics, and not take my word for it!

Dan

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