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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> I bought a 8TB hard drive. Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the |
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>> exact model info. It seems to be slow. |
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> What's the output of: |
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> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda |
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> (Assuming it's the sda drive.) |
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Well, after a lot more googling, I decided to start over and then |
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decided to use a different tool. I ran dd for several GBs and then used |
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gparted to partition and format the drive with ext4. Right now, it is |
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doing the format part. |
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One thing I noticed. When it is formatting, it takes HOURS. When I did |
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it the first time, from command line using mkfs.ext4, it took hours. So |
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far, it's been working on it for well over 30 minutes. I don't recall |
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it taking anywhere near this long on the 6TB drive I have. I might add, |
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I did it through a USB port. The fact it takes so long to format makes |
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me thing something is up somewhere. Is that normal?? I also got this |
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during a attempt to put a file system on it a bit ago. |
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root@fireball / # mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -L 8tb-backup -b 4096 /dev/sdb1 |
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mke2fs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) |
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Creating filesystem with 1953506129 4k blocks and 244191232 inodes |
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Filesystem UUID: 2b987f80-b9e2-45e0-8dda-b25f0901e213 |
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Superblock backups stored on blocks: |
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32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, |
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2654208, |
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4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, |
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102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544, 1934917632 |
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Allocating group tables: done |
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Writing inode tables: done |
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Creating journal (262144 blocks): done |
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Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: |
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Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks. |
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That last line is something I've never seen before. If it doesn't |
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finish soon, I may check the sata cables and such. Maybe one of them |
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isn't plugged in good, has dust on it or something. Something isn't |
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working right here. |
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Open to ideas tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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