CentOS - Apr 2013 - fsck - anyway to increase verbosity to show point in process

Greetings,

I'm running CentOS 5.x on one ancient but reasonably reliable machine:
root at leeloo ~> uname -a
Linux leeloo 2.6.18-308.24.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 17:42:30 EST 2012 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root at leeloo ~> cat /proc/cpu
cat: /proc/cpu: No such file or directory
root at leeloo ~> cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 11
model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family      1400MHz
..

I am running some fsck's on some of the larger drives (750GB and 2TB) that 
are used for backups. There is a verbosity flag (-V); but because of the 
size of the drives along with slowness of the processor, the process is 
taking a long time.

And there is no indication how much of the process has been completed 
(nothing like a %tage indicator), at least the way that I am running it.

Is this expected, or is there some way of amping up the feedback?

Much thanks,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

Max Pyziur wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.x on one ancient but reasonably reliable machine:
<snip>
> I am running some fsck's on some of the larger drives (750GB and 2TB)
that
> are used for backups. There is a verbosity flag (-V); but because of the
> size of the drives along with slowness of the processor, the process is
> taking a long time.
>
> And there is no indication how much of the process has been completed
> (nothing like a %tage indicator), at least the way that I am running it.
>
> Is this expected, or is there some way of amping up the feedback?
-C gives you nice warm fuzzies, something for you to watch as you fall
asleep (it takes a *long* bloody while for big drives, he says from
experience.)

     mark

El 09/04/13 20:41, Max Pyziur escribi?:
> And there is no indication how much of the process has been completed
> (nothing like a %tage indicator), at least the way that I am running it.
Tip: if you have already launched "fsck" you can recover the progress 
bar sending SIGUSR1 signal, see this behavior in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4eztFtS0U

SantiSaez
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