On Thu, Aug 19, 15:10, Andre Noll wrote:
> > Something which *might* help (but will take a long time) is to add to
> > your /etc/e2fsck.conf (if you have one; if not create one wiht these
> > contents):
> > 
> > [scratch_files]
> >     directory = /var/cache/fsck
> > 
> > (And then make sure /var/cache/fsck exists.)
> 
> Thanks for the hint. It is running for an hour now and I will report
> back tomorrow. ATM, it's at 1% and the two files in /var/cache/fsck
> are ~50M large.

It got much slower: 4.8% after one day. So I cancelled the fsck and
am copying the raw device to a 64bit machine and run fsck there,
as Andreas suggested.

Thanks
Andre
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