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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.0 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))