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[74.240.57.244]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w2sm1285801ywl.10.2018.12.13.05.37.51 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:37:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <43afb4f2-e1ba-a558-7f80-2015d91b7177@gmail.com> <2dff49fd-191e-4a42-01ea-7b91b7973fd0@gmail.com> <813377fe-950e-7519-0523-d8f64c2d94cb@gmail.com> <0c1387e6-bfc5-acbc-0f7b-907b196a11dd@gmail.com> From: Dale Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=rdalek1967@gmail.com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQINBFpEtdQBEADI51WaryP3FJlDfmCQx2aPQpSppEKxqWhCTA8KFEcOVFmIIfiFAeekqMMD mhUxgZTtlQh7dsNqha6ioaYDqGKTv7oeJlPJw4hmIMJX3WYVSOHlsJUNM2jpDIAFeEKfup/T zDzFpuU2Qtr/Y0ji35wHyOAZLRckeNk705oRvE9wqi6noTP15Gxmw/U6aMzEfvu+wGEfCjgs 9bERmu+CS75PZEaFAv8RnsXUv1UcvQ45jmk/8ni/ogxE2h53OIp6c/hOlgJkSVRQWPZZyKZw lDiSUKCtMXPMdZ9w0X6RltQxtIQXO0KxAKaAp+tnL8z+0piafF5uW4RIglhT922RXKxxdZyx SjRgtE4V1IPtUcwPAeqVUZw2P1b4pjfPv7tNtMoFsIiY0ZnT+ua4ps6KOUeocRPKAX14mZkL jt/sZM7aIKiwyoteshRgWNNkxh4OiSxGCRUKNQI8M42cRSidvJZ6SGZXM3WpV28RPyF7+0Ba 0stEQwBGNF8uxgytY9rOJ7obmIpEZKx1p3W1O1hadOjBo2110jMDirRXtktMDfBDvVKkOZ06 vLu16uZLb0O52euhl2dMcEI3ZoCAFTKtdwMITIDj1TcMBZar6+bcwOicSFFogOLHQLJZRO5q I5szOIYW7+c0yNqPRLT3Sq7HzDyuyTUjmPZSAcqOwzX8GwUFkwARAQABtBtEYWxlIDxyZGFs ZWsxOTY3QGdtYWlsLmNvbT6JAlQEEwEIAD4WIQSUDVlCt0m0Z/PsCaxgB5lCagHqugUCWkS1 1AIbIwUJCWYBgAULCQgHAgYVCAkKCwIEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRBgB5lCagHqurR7D/45/q20 vXdrJGxrkNphotmlBtTpNbVauu5A2NDv3E1Il6yqRBfh4Xw7xFuwhz9DqThuvByU6566vr0z 7oVCK33dxRm4WA7YaogRQZy4VVIbHdrksnh2f702CFllqtn5Y29M2JtXG5jiiL3aZNEhoyP9 eMtzLPGs56yZ3eMkz4U7DEmWCAUr8bbuXW+eq/A0V5djcFdHfmanuDZSxzg+cZTpVOLolS2b pmNsPTSMkJ2MDY2Kfdg3gPhSaawo2agQfgnf9E7vSm7z/rlk8bBUWcPAP/XTN9ndVwOO3x74 EQv/M4EiCTtNpw3yapVZI2NhA1wqW648D7RxIPD8Y3nkJVDS4x5g54xDe1IUFOtVUSDAh+vY wUJt7vgbCeRjyT8XbuGW9RokIos3ALNaPoq/FDNEqefbmop0CPRih6aLFHWT4YBA6xQjLJuP LSNvalNqE5mef0giCtnLxo/lkjnP9Sv+t/5VSHda5zkVuN0+2w46SbGvXIHRkSoSi6XH3ccq KayJC+oTqo4xf9J30c7CV4rEcYnJcnxMw0vcYmU3DwjGfKxuKcLHgPr9mDNWvhteroA5wNWw NzQ72yAj7rsZVUXCxZgiPldSH3SXZJ/Jo6E9JouzQgRb/I4Vy4jx0Yw8rJLDx/ha82fn+FVe cFbiodVV5UD0inw488IAAtJE+Zi0t7kCDQRaRLXUARAA38iHcF7M7GnkS73dazdLBgz2YJsu fpix/N/x4CvoHMqTuwi4ASz1WroYjl3KajeH0DSybyPdEQ7nffxIUt48deT3j/rwsJkPRvCF BpmcwxErd/Mbq0BgikYxXvO68aEAs4jBDR26YtONfjobEfd+Juhxci9UN9vTOCgSPhY+dxHs MZ0gHRzvMnpM3o3+oht/XRZr05RQx83DvTIqWnjDQlCseYYlbFp+rFTZi7ro71ULDThfCE0p +f+IQ3zX0cRKOcJGtNRvyWH6PxmN4td6Q7gPHfAsFPLsCpg7nZwOejtAktPejtSEXlN6QOKv bmRQxNtzgMtjzJNNJW2NtBz0DIW394+9stchQRKLqH8n8GnB6tlkfPg4vgf/kq14QQSZcb0F M36wk+i1Hk+TWYWbOBoUw9+X941Pw1JnglJ3tzpBh+36+pdG02Lbm2v6SaZ69zkDfzJ2Sfhb E+KQLibLkiCOhuSDLDWUgUeb0lJ/0qlo3vcQMTBuG5eiWiwBkp4C+ACb1f1Akq0mFvim+gCJ qJOTu0IDK9DjKLKglA3Z6sbeepnXq8fxB2Mo/SFSYEsGqUu4MLxgwnPg7zi+rKg7MhqdiBBE fqugmNguCEYZjJrGCCzwuqPXAZAcyzEYTGFKwI6NdEZ6v8Xc3om9MJomB3y1uzG6K7T9ue5H aw/2aqEAEQEAAYkCPAQYAQgAJhYhBJQNWUK3SbRn8+wJrGAHmUJqAeq6BQJaRLXUAhsMBQkJ ZgGAAAoJEGAHmUJqAeq6/ykP/ib6xEHednaXvzZvvj854PB5ffBqKkphbf51g6pxPvFBWMwY E7Bu/kq8e3hkp3rzX42BjqiUmfEe2OyfZCabXLybP8i/QRkHTzD5nLoIYLeL+62N/WQFW1NU VhqdfQbMhphNgP1mvG2Ib5R6S+Fb+vkw776oq6jLwUBP/o6PPpp62GyvFvFb9ekxV9+sE4yG V3DTqURBY+aXfc/MTzlCXp4u4QzFW9odfcb/kb9f1m/gZbWGihAqeMd1HViXQoMzTx6IuP13 eQAkKj4FlA2QMzbEOOKO6fliSt1JweJoh0OLCEAM/3q+LaflMvvjhl9ht00IUT/ySj3/dZdf EdTpuUAtnC3A3flwgK/aetkkOhrkx9hx4SKn6UHtAl+eCqP1Mae+nWzkisBL0/hBPEz713md 5I+4Y4QjIokRiz/5l/TFwpGu26zmDfDUkZmxZR/iNCW0VAmZE2YdyRm3PYcFcVXuZ1f/ff0D us9xGsO8V6F5EIwx/9Y6AWQdW7PoKHA21ri93PoRgjv+QoOifXEkhJwTKg5k5b1Tr7h9eRU/ Se2XigPVODjrN9FRfkx/JxlJcCs/igGJS05BmiZNIIRDKBGdXy/Fj5HQB2q5v5DfvrLMNTwK Aa8pn/em1SKC/l9aV9ygpN+cQPKoQjGxPPaId/rwX+GVxKl2vakjHLPLQmm3 Message-ID: <74c1b33d-f054-2bc9-39ff-19bbf5de15b7@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:37:47 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 145cefe9-3c44-41fc-8f4a-02db16afd831 X-Archives-Hash: 36e305985575776d00412d974a69d53c Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/12/2018 11:18, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>> I'd recommend just using mkfs instead of using your own parameters: >>> >>> mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 >>> >>> It will use the parameters from /etc/mke2fs.conf. This is the safest >>> way to format a partition. >>> >>> >>> >> >> May try that next, if it ever finishes this current attempt.  It's been >> a hour for the current format attempt.  I won't be surprised if it gives >> up too. > > Did you check for any errors in dmesg? > > > OK.  This is what I did this time.  First, I dd'd the drive, the first several gigs worth to be sure the partition table etc is gone.  Second, I ran portprobe for it to see the partition was gone.  It would still show up in /proc/partitions.  I then used gdisk to create the partition.  I might add, cgdisk would not run.  It spit out a error and quit.  Then I ran partprobe again.  May have ran it twice.  Then it showed up in /proc/partitons as it should.  Then I used your advice and used mkfs -t ext4 and other options for label etc to format the partition.  That gave me this: root@fireball / # time mkfs -v -t ext4 -m 0 -L 8tb-backup /dev/sde1 mke2fs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) fs_types for mke2fs.conf resolution: 'ext4', 'big' Filesystem label=8tb-backup OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 244191232 inodes, 1953506385 blocks 0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4102029312 59617 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 4096 inodes per group Filesystem UUID: ebcd0ad4-f25f-466e-9b5c-acac33886df0 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: done       real    37m50.570s user    0m0.121s sys     0m1.639s root@fireball / # Before you freak out, I did move the drive to another port when I changed the cable.  It moved from sdb to sde.  I always confirm using smartctrl -i until I find the right device.  After all that, I get this:     204,807,599 100%  120.79MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7946, ir-chk=3715/13065) 120,136,339 100%   77.20MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7947, ir-chk=3714/13065) 119,445,345 100%   94.38MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7948, ir-chk=3713/13065) 109,298,753 100%  100.81MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7949, ir-chk=3712/13065) 116,704,897 100%   82.38MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7950, ir-chk=3711/13065) 110,075,610 100%   92.49MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7951, ir-chk=3710/13065) 115,757,218 100%  106.46MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7952, ir-chk=3709/13065) 111,693,138 100%  128.49MB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#7953, ir-chk=3708/13065) 208,458,508 100%   56.93MB/s    0:00:03 (xfr#7954, ir-chk=3707/13065) 113,847,275 100%   88.92MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7955, ir-chk=3706/13065) 181,249,801 100%   79.22MB/s    0:00:02 (xfr#7956, ir-chk=3705/13065) 215,941,705 100%  146.99MB/s    0:00:01 (xfr#7957, ir-chk=3704/13065) Now I knew this wasn't the fastest drive out there.  It puts a little more on living a long life at the expense of a little speed.  However, this is MUCH MUCH better than I was getting.  Since I have a good size drive now, I'm backing up /home and excluding things I don't care about like cache and files in the trash etc.  It's a progressive thing.  At this point, I don't know if it was the cable, me running partprobe or both that did this.  It could also be running mkfs instead of mkfs.ext4 as well.  Who knows.  I'm just glad to have some SPEED.  O_O  Thanks much to all.  Dale :-)  :-)