Re: disks, partitions, slices, etc.

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 4/10/26 a las 13:39, Robert Elz escribió:
>      Date:        Sun, 4 Oct 2026 09:26:11 +0200
>      From:        Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>
>      Message-ID:  <805184e3-3466-4b13-b94d-36f1d36a01fa%gmail.com@localhost>
>
>    | I am almost sure that I used "fsck.ext2 /dev/sd0e" instead
>    | "fsck.ext2 /dev/rsd0e".
>    | is that possible?
>
> It would be slower, but I doubt a factor of 5 - the biggest effect
> is more likely using more CPU time for copying data around.
>
> I doubt that our ext2 fsck is particularly optimised however.

Hi Robert

/usr/pkg/sbin/fsck.ext2 I used is from pkgsrc e2fsprogs, our fsck is /sbin/fsck_ext2fs, I think, am I right?

Thanks so much.



> kre
>
> ps: on a big enough filesystem, even ffs fsck on the raw device
>      can run for days...