Comment by pixl97
18 hours ago
Yea, run an old kernel with ext2 on a busy system writing a bunch of small files and have a power supply fail and you'll end up with something there.
fsck on large hard drives was scary on how long it could take to finish.
The occassional "Drive has not been checked in <n> days, forcing check" message on bootup got annoying sometimes, yeah. It could easily take tens of minutes to finish, exactly when I wanted to use the computer!
(At least this is what my memory is telling me. I could be mistaken, but that's what I remember.)
"check forced", as though the machine is advising me to go look at some daemon named forced.
Forced sounds like a systemd service for Jedi stuff.
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I had a largish raid back then, under ext2, may have been a massive 40G.
I recall going to sleep and it still not being done when I woke up. Bleh.
One of several reasons to partition a large volume into smaller ones. At least, back then.