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Re: newfs speed?

To: Dave Sill <ds-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: newfs speed?
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 03 Oct 2001 15:07:43 -0500
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On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 15:03, Dave Sill wrote:
> I've got a 200GB h/w RAID 5 that I want to convert from e2fs to
> XFS. It takes ~8 hours to fsck it now. About how long will it take to
> newfs as XFS?

By "newfs" I assume you mean mkfs.xfs?  That shouldn't take long at
all... certainly not long compared to the time it might take to restore
your data on the new filesystem...

-Eric

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