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I'm trying to do an fsck on an ext3 partition but I'm seeing abysmally slow disk throughput; monitoring with "dstat" (like vmstat) shows ~1200-1500KB/s throughput to the disks. Even with 24hrs of fsck-ing I only get ~3% (still in pass1). The filesystem is ext3 running "e2fsck -C0 /dev/sda3" and about 3.7TB on an x86_64-based system with 4GB RAM. e2fsprogs is 1.41.9.

Hi there I am an old man trying to keep up with my son but people who give instructions on these forums seem to think that we are all hi powered users who only need the minimum of guidance to achieve perfection. Let me tell you that is not the case. I am a novice with linux and wanted to have it so that I can do some work for my son that is linux based on the web. This is fine as the mail and