On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 5:30 AM George R Goffe via users <
users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hi,
I have a 2TB HDD with a possibly major problem. I have cleared the data
from it and have tried to run "mke2fs -t ext4 -j /dev/sdc1" but after 24
hours it had just finished the 0xaa phase and started reading when the
drive seemingly dropped ready and was re-assigned as a new device to
/dev/sdf. Argh. I did get an ended message with an ending block number. I'd
like to restart at that point in time and continue the media check. I don't
see anything in the mke2fs man page though.
Has anyone seen or heard of a way to do this?
Why did it take that long? Even on large drives mke2fs (or mkfs, mkfs.ext4)
should take seconds to maybe a minute, not 24 hours. I think that's your
primary problem. The whole drive isn't written to when creating any modern
filesystem.
Also, journaling should be on by default for ext3/4 formats otherwise
there's no real benefit over ext2.
Thanks,
Richard