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          I'd hate to think what it would do on a corrupted system.

**UPDATE:** I ran “time mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt” (under Unix, this will time how
long a command takes to run) and found that it took 7.08 seconds in the
kernel to mount the 17G harddrive under Linux 2.0.36 running on a 486SX-
33MHz. Ouch.

I also ran “time fsck -f -y /dev/hdb1” (under Unix, this will check the
consistency of the filesystem and make corrections. The -f option forces the
program to run, even if the filesystem isn't corrupted) and it took almost 15
minutes to run. That on a clean filesystem. I'd hate to think what it would
do on a corrupted system.


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