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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 13/12/2018 09:11, Dale wrote: |
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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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> I'd still like to know what the output of "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda" is :P |
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This is what it says right now. |
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root@fireball / # fdisk -l /dev/sdb |
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Disk /dev/sdb: 7.3 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors |
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes |
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Disklabel type: gpt |
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Disk identifier: 16E55D4E-BA7D-463B-807F-0BE27A488E21 |
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Device Start End Sectors Size Type |
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/dev/sdb1 2048 15628052479 15628050432 7.3T Linux filesystem |
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root@fireball / # |
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BTW, it's sdb but I know what you wanted. ;-) As it is, that was done |
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with gparted. It is still trying to put a ext4 file system on it and it |
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has been about a hour. If I recall correctly, it took several minutes |
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on the 6TB drive a while back but nowhere near this long. There's not |
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that much difference between 6TB and 8TB. I might add, I did a |
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smartctrl -a for that drive, it took a good long while to retrieve the |
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data. Generally, it comes back in seconds for other drives. It seems |
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that everything is slow for that specific drive. |
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While I was typing all that in, it came back with this. |
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create new ext4 file system 01:05:26 ( ERROR ) |
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mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L "8tb-backup" /dev/sdb1 01:05:26 ( ERROR ) |
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Creating filesystem with 1953506304 4k blocks and 244191232 inodes |
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Filesystem UUID: 49241f90-62c0-47bf-b3a0-32f2efaa3fed |
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Superblock backups stored on blocks: |
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32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 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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mke2fs 1.43.9 (8-Feb-2018) |
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Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks. |
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Yea, something isn't right here. Given I've tried two different tools, |
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I'm going to check those cables and such. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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