Re: Suggestion on autorelabel

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 02/01/2012 09:56 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:02 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> On 01/31/2012 05:06 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Y'know, folks, fsck -c gives you a clue that not only is it 
>>> running, but a vague feel for how much longer it'll be. 
>>> .autorelabel, esp with several 2TB drives in a system, gives 
>>> screens and screens and screens of asterisks, with no clue if
>>> it'll *ever* finish (which matters, when I'm going to be
>>> leaving soon, and it needs to be up for an overnight
>>> backup....)
>>> 
>>> mark
>>> 
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>> Give me a mechanism to know how many files are on the file system
>> and I might be able to give you an idea.
>> 
>> Basically this is doing  a
>> 
>> find /
>> 
>> I don't think there is a way to know how many files are left. --
> 
> I was also troubled by the 'endless' stream of asterisks.
> 
> Perhaps some sort of heuristic - like disk size(s) divided by
> 'average' file size. Also don't know the value of one asterisk - is
> it 100 files?
> 
> A few more experiments would give something that would be +- 30%
> This would be better than nothing.
> 
> Bob G
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If you have huge file systems with all the same file type on them. it
is probably better to just mount the drive with a label.

Then autorelabel will ignore the file system.  No reason to put labels
on a huge file system all with the same label.


man setfiles
...
       -p     show progress by printing * every 1000 files.
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