> That's just because of a STUPID default.
>
> The ext2 mount code defaults to do a full check at mount time, and it
> takes _forever_ on a big disk because the full check involves going
> through every superblock and verifying that they all match etc.
Its caught errors before that probably avoided people losing data. Its a good
sanity check. The "stupid" defaults are two other things
o Using 1K blocks on large disks (4K is way faster) and
4K checks way faster too
o Not using the "sparse superblock" option on large disks
when creating them.
Unfortunately I dont think there are any "in place" fixers for those creation
time choices
Alan
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