[SOLVED] gparted performance - creating ext4 filesystem takes forever

17 hours have passed since i issued creation of new partition(150GB) with ext4 filesystem on it using newest version of gparted. 
Does it really takes that long? Is it normal?
Because i have no way of telling whether it does anything at the moment. All i see on  gui is the let's call it "progress bar" swinging back and forth.
On the details i can see it's issuing mkfs.ext4 command but it's nowhere to be found using ps command.
Only gparted and gpartedbin are running but they have 0 CPU usage according to top cmd.
Last edited by deltharac (2013-10-16 19:01:01)

NotFromBrooklyn wrote:Something must have failed. The largest partition I remember creating manually was 80 GB and it took me less than I need to finish a coffee cup.
Yep it seemed strange to me that it's THAT slow i just needed someone's confirmation, thanks. I killed the whole process and the partition is there with ext4 filesystem prepared but i quess it won't be a good idea to assume it has been set up properly. There's already 2.54GB marked as used for some reason.
I'll try to recreate filesystem from some livecd environment.
graysky wrote:...are you resizing a partition and then making a new one?
Nah no resizing, only one operation. I was just organizing my 2nd sata II hdd space to serve as backup for my original System from where i was using gparted to create new partitions on that disk.

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