Gene Czarcinski gene@czarc.net writes:
[...] In all cases, I have formatted the root ("/") partition as ext4. I have noticed that formatting the partition for ext4 seems to take considerably more wall-clock time for ext4 partitions than my previous experience with ext3 partitions. [...]
I have seen the same thing; this sort of thing appeared to help:
mkfs.ext4 -O uninit_bg -E lazy_itable_init=1
- FChE