Slow fsck times

[Peter King]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 09:15:46PM -0400, Peter King wrote:

> I have WD hard disk that started throwing a sector error. I unmounted it
> and started fsck on it. Now, about three hours later, it's only showing
> 2.4% complete -- which seems rather slow. According to htop, the memory
> usage is 1.6% and the CPU usage negligible; iostat does show changes in
> reads/writes for the disk. So far no calls for intervention or to fix
> anything; it's just grinding away.

Follow-up: It completed after about 15 hours, the last 80% being done in
some 35 minutes, so I suppose it had errors at the beginning. A series of
small block-reading errors, one wrong inode-count, all fixed. Remounted,
but, alas, more drive-reading errors and very slow access times (the "ls"
on a directory can take up to 35 seconds to respond). I guess this drive
is on the way out, or, if the Hardware Deities are friendly, to RMA a new
one. Well, Easter is supposed to be the time of resurrection, after all --

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