Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au> typed:
: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:59:25PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
:> There really isn't any point reporting all the alternate superblocks,
:> big filesystems can have thousands of them - no one ever writes them down.
:> After the first line of numbers just output a '.' for each cylinder group.
: I object. The dots don't tell me much useful about progress;
: previously I could watch the superblock numbers grow and approach the
: number of blocks in the filesystem.

a, a+b, a+2b, a+3b, a+4b, a+5b, a+6b, a+7b, ...., a+139627b, ....

Pretty maybe but useful?  Percentage may be useful (because after 23 seconds
I want to know if I need to wait another 8 seconds - coffee is boiling).
Once it prints out the first two values (and the last value (which you
could calculate)), what exactly is it useful for?  It's just good to "watch"?
I don't really understand the objection.

Regards,
Geoff