[Bug 619012] Re: Parallel fsck is very slow with multiple partitions on one drive

fwiw, I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit in VMWare Workstation 7.1 on a Server 2008 R2 host. Maybe that's why reads aren't being prioritized. Also, I'm not using LVM; my partitions are /dev/sda[1,6-8] -- Parallel fsck is very slow with multiple partitions on one drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 619012] [NEW] Parallel fsck is very slow with multiple partitions on one drive

Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mountall Before 10.04, Ubuntu fsck'ed every partition serially. In 10.04, multiple partitions on one drive are fscked in parallel. The change was made in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/491389 I have three ext4 partitions on a