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Re: extremely slow parted execution
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Attila Tajti |
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Re: extremely slow parted execution |
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Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:25:21 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 2003 April 22 00:48, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Sorry for the extremely late reply.
I beg your pardon, but due to this I can't remember at all what the problem
and the solution was. :(
> > I tried to resize a partition a 16G FAT32 on my Gentoo Linux system
> > (2.4.20-lolo-r2_pre5 kernel, Athlon 1.2GHz, 512M RAM, 80G UDMA 66 disk).
> > I tried to resize my last partition, which was 16G to free up 10G. It was
> > 10% full (~1.6G so 6G should be ok). Parted seem to be working with 100%
> > CPU utilisation, but I see only a short blink of the HDD led in every 3-4
> > seconds. dmesg contains only the line "invalidate: busy buffer" in it.
>
> That is very odd. I don't really have any theories... could you run
> "strace parted", and tell me what operations are taking a long time?
I knew this was odd and most probably not a problem with parted.
Probably the lazy unmount caused this behavior, with the filesystem still
being used by a process? As far as I can remember the problem was fixed after
I tried to repartition my harddrive from another boot image. I tried the ones
on the parted page and the Gentoo Live CD.
> > It is still
> > running, but I think I'll have to abort the resize process. I backed up
> > my most important data anyway.
>
> It is safe to interrupt the resize process (except for a very small window
> at the very end).
I know. :)
Thank you,
Attila
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Attila Tajti
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