From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Running fsck of huge ext4 partition takes weeks Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:05:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20150827190548.GC3357@thunk.org> References: <28A25D6A-DA5A-42D2-9BFE-9F6C95B51BE7@dilger.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Afonyashin Return-path: Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:51013 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752456AbbH0TFu (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:05:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:23:58PM +0300, Alexander Afonyashin wrote: > Hi, > > I've restarted fsck ~6 hours ago. It's again occupied ~30GB RAM and > strace shows that number of syscalls per second becomes fewer and > fewer. Can you run it under "script" so we can get a transcript of the run? It sounds like your file system has gotten very badly damaged, so the question is figuring out what happened so we can advise you about how to recover. Can you also send the output of dumpe2fs? Thanks, - Ted