Ext 4 file system trouble - gparted taking hours
Posted: 25 Sep 2018, 03:04
So let me tell ya from the beginning
I had 2 450GB partitions on a 1 TB drive. I emptied out one of the partitions and then decided to delete the empty partition, extend the other partition using Gparted.
I didn't realize the laptop was not plugged in - I came back a while later and the laptop was off. Not sure where/when everything was at when it stopped.
Fired up the laptop and the single, larger partition shows up - but it won't mount. In gparted - I did a check partition and it cooks and cooks and doesn't seem to be doing anything.
The command Gparted is running is: e2fsck -f -y -v -C 0 '/dev/sdb2'
But after 6 minutes it just doesn't seem to be doing anything.
iostat results in this:
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
10,73 0,06 1,44 1,06 0,00 86,72
Device tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn
sda 12,64 464,35 199,95 2563425 1103800
sdb 3,91 85,52 0,72 472113 3996
I don't know what this means - but it doesn't look like it is working very hard at all.
The info on the disk is somewhat important so I don't want to just reformat and start over.
I was reading about TestDisk but don't know exactly how to use it correctly given my situation.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Frank
I had 2 450GB partitions on a 1 TB drive. I emptied out one of the partitions and then decided to delete the empty partition, extend the other partition using Gparted.
I didn't realize the laptop was not plugged in - I came back a while later and the laptop was off. Not sure where/when everything was at when it stopped.
Fired up the laptop and the single, larger partition shows up - but it won't mount. In gparted - I did a check partition and it cooks and cooks and doesn't seem to be doing anything.
The command Gparted is running is: e2fsck -f -y -v -C 0 '/dev/sdb2'
But after 6 minutes it just doesn't seem to be doing anything.
iostat results in this:
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
10,73 0,06 1,44 1,06 0,00 86,72
Device tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn
sda 12,64 464,35 199,95 2563425 1103800
sdb 3,91 85,52 0,72 472113 3996
I don't know what this means - but it doesn't look like it is working very hard at all.
The info on the disk is somewhat important so I don't want to just reformat and start over.
I was reading about TestDisk but don't know exactly how to use it correctly given my situation.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Frank