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Primax wrote:
Thanks so much.
Yesterday I kept the X5000 running, hoping that validating will be finished. But it did not seem so.
Does anybody has any experiences with validating under FFS and how much time this could take? I kept it running for about 5 hours...
Depends on how many files. If you have lots and lots and lots it may take so long that it could actually damage your drive - as in days. A HDD may overheat and take a year's wear, an SSD may wear as well. If you stop and reboot, it just starts off from scratch. It's reading every single file and writing to the bitmap, which is a horrible way to use a mechanical drive that probably made sense back in the late 80s when 10MB drives were common.
If it's not finishing validating even with a few files then it's an unrecoverable error. Used to be you could use DiskSalv to fix that, but I wouldn't recommend it because of the 64 bit issue.
Validation write protects the drive but doesn't read protect it. So you can copy your files out into a thumb drive or another partition, and copy them back after format. If it's your system drive boot from a CD beforehand.
Edit: and if using copy remember to use CLONE, to keep all your file attributes. Losing +S from startup-sequence may result in boot failure. It did on AmigaOS at least.
[ Edited by KennyR 12.01.2022 - 18:51 ]
