On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtr...@gci.net> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of >> 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition >> for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the >> default value in Squeeze. >> >> The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is taking for ever. >> I think it has done the 160GB partition and now it is doing the 2TB >> partition. The progress bar has shown 33% of the process for 2 hours. >> Is this normal? Does it take so long to format a 2TB partition. I >> would expect that the progress bar should move with the time. >> >> Thanks, >> Daniel > Not sure about the initial format but all subsequent fsck take lots of time > with > ext3, esp 2 TB. i would switch to ext4,you can do this during the netinstall, > high light ( press enter) on the file system entry and a pop up screen appears > with more file system choices.
That is right the fsck takes very long time. I think that the installer should show the status of the fsck. Otherwise it is not possible to know if something is wrong or it is just doing the fsck. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimvfjrafgegazw6wrkobwnjqdnddh6rfn0b+...@mail.gmail.com
