Am 02.03.20 um 18:25 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 02/03/2020 14.54, Daniel Bauer wrote:
I just inserted a new hard disk (6TB) in my Desktop-Computer and made a new encrypted partition using Yast.
Now ext4lazyint runs and runs and runs...
I read it is a background process that has to do with inodes. My questions are:
- can I already use that disk (exactly to rsync 3TB of data to it) or must/should I wait until ext4lazyinit has terminated?
- can I shut down the computer while this is still running? Or shouldn't I?
I guess you can shut down the computer, or some message when creating it would tell you not to. And I guess you can use the disk as soon as you want. But, I would leave it run till it stops, without powering down, then copy the files. My guess is that without files it will have an easier job.
For what I have read it does it's work with 16MB/sec. If I have counted correctly this would mean more than 100 hours for 6TB... So I started the rsync and hope it will work... I have also read that when making the filesystem ext4 there is the option to do the full formating inclusive of the inodes, which will taje some time, but not that much, as then the full speed of the disk is used, while ext4lazyintit works slowly in the background to not disturb. However, Yast doesn't offer this options as much as I have seen. Furthermore the infos I found say, that inodes, if not yet done, are created when writing to the disk, making the write a bit slower. I don't know if the information I found is correct - and if I interpreted it correctly. But until now rsync runs normally while ext4lazyinit still tuns, too. Hope it's ok, know on wood :-) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org