From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 01:11:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2dff49fd-191e-4a42-01ea-7b91b7973fd0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pusspc$cs3$1@blaine.gmane.org>
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I bought a 8TB hard drive. Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the
>> exact model info. It seems to be slow.
>
> What's the output of:
>
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> (Assuming it's the sda drive.)
>
>
>
Well, after a lot more googling, I decided to start over and then
decided to use a different tool. I ran dd for several GBs and then used
gparted to partition and format the drive with ext4. Right now, it is
doing the format part.
One thing I noticed. When it is formatting, it takes HOURS. When I did
it the first time, from command line using mkfs.ext4, it took hours. So
far, it's been working on it for well over 30 minutes. I don't recall
it taking anywhere near this long on the 6TB drive I have. I might add,
I did it through a USB port. The fact it takes so long to format makes
me thing something is up somewhere. Is that normal?? I also got this
during a attempt to put a file system on it a bit ago.
root@fireball / # mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -L 8tb-backup -b 4096 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018)
Creating filesystem with 1953506129 4k blocks and 244191232 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 2b987f80-b9e2-45e0-8dda-b25f0901e213
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632,
2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.
That last line is something I've never seen before. If it doesn't
finish soon, I may check the sata cables and such. Maybe one of them
isn't plugged in good, has dust on it or something. Something isn't
working right here.
Open to ideas tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-13 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-13 0:48 [gentoo-user] Sata hard drive speed question Dale
2018-12-13 2:04 ` Taiidan
2018-12-13 3:36 ` Dale
2018-12-13 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-13 8:54 ` Dale
2018-12-13 9:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-13 9:16 ` Dale
2018-12-13 6:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-13 7:11 ` Dale [this message]
2018-12-13 7:24 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-13 7:49 ` Dale
2018-12-13 9:09 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-13 9:18 ` Dale
2018-12-13 11:10 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-12-13 13:37 ` Dale
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