I have got some bad blocks in my HDD and I can not login now. I boot from a USB and try to fix it.

Before e2fsck I badblocks -nvs the partition first so that I know that bad blocks are in /dev/sda3 (it took a couple of hours).

And…

$ sudo e2fsck /dev/sda3 -fcckyv
e2fsck 1.46.3 (27-Jul-2021)
Checking for bad blocks (non-destructive read-write test)
Testing with random pattern: done
/dev/sda3: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Running additional passes to resolve blocks claimed by more than one inode...
Pass 1B: Rescanning for multiply-claimed blocks
Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 1841930: 5236574
Pass 1C: Scanning directories for inodes with multiply-claimed blocks
Pass 1D: Reconciling multiply-claimed blocks
(There are 1 inodes containing multiply-claimed blocks.)
File /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnvcuvid.so.470.103.01 (inode #1841930, mod time Thu Jan 6 11:58:25 2022) has 1 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 1 file(s): <The bad blocks inode> (inode #1, mod time Tue Mar 1 13:30:12 2022)
Clone multiply-claimed blocks? yes
Error reading block 5236574 (Input/output error). Ignore error? yes
Force rewrite? yes

After the last line showing, it has been 8 hours and no pregress at all.

This partition was mounted at /usr, and it will be fine if just some of the data in it are lost (it just might take me some time to reinstall things according to dpkg logs).

So is it normal for e2fsck to take so much time (much, much longer than badblocks does) and no progress at all? What should I do next? Should I just wait?

System info

• Both live CD and the OS in my hard drive are KUbuntu 21.10
• e2fsck 14.46.3
• /dev/sda3 is a partition of my HDD, about 32GB large (while the total space of my HDD is 1TB), its file system is ext4.

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