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How long does badblocks take on a 1TB drive?
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Mar 15, 202664303 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'm running badblocks (or rather "e2fsck -c") on a 1TB drive and if the progress indicator is any indication (no pun intended), it's going to take almost forever to complete. Right now it says which would mean the thing would take 17 weeks or so to complete, which seems rather excessive in my book.…
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0.01% done, 30:20 elapsed
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Fix for: How long does badblocks take on a 1TB drive?
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To answer you question, the closest I can offer is with a 3TB I tested for this. Here are the 3 times tests I did, only changing the parameter values for and only doing them up to 10% since they took A LOT of time. Each was done 3 times to get an av…
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