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I tried this

xargs -p 5 -n1 mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sd[d-p]1

and got this

[/dev/mapper]# seq 1 15 | xargs -p 5 -n 1 mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sd[b-p]1 5 -n 1 mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 /dev/sdm1 /dev/sdn1 /dev/sdo1 /dev/sdp1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ?...

Also tried this

[/dev/mapper]# xargs -p 5 -n 1 mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sd[b-p]1

and got nothing. Any ideas? what ami doing swo

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    That puts a heavy I/O load, and doing it in parallel doesn't make any sense unless they are connected to separate controllers Commented Jan 15, 2016 at 16:24
  • @vonbrand Are you sure? If the disks are slow SATA disks, then I would imagine most time was spent waiting for the platter to spin/seeking. Have you tested your claim? If so would you share the numbers with us? Commented Jan 18, 2016 at 2:31

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Using GNU Parallel you would do this:

parallel -P 5 mke2fs -t ext4 ::: /dev/sd[d-p]1
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Try this:

 echo -e "/dev/sdb\n/dev/sdc\n/dev/sdd" | xargs -P0 -n1  mkfs.ext4
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  • xargs delimits by blank spaces by default, so you don't need the \n there at all. Commented Jan 17, 2016 at 18:29

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