Hi Ben!

First of all, please fix your mailheader. Writing to public mls without your
realname in 'From' is most of the time a good reason to prevent others from
replying.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:48:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I presume that there is a script somewhere in my init.d that checks how 
> many times each partition has been mounted and when that number is 
> reached does a fsck..

> is this correct? can anyone tell me what it is?!!
Nope, this is part of the filesystem itself.

eg: this is the actual data for one of my ext3 filesystems on my notebook

spot:~# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/vg0-media--temp 
tune2fs 1.36-rc4 (26-Jan-2005)
...
Filesystem created:       Fri Oct 29 15:35:57 2004
Last mount time:          Fri Jan 28 21:26:36 2005
Last write time:          Fri Jan 28 21:26:36 2005
Mount count:              17
Maximum mount count:      26
Last checked:             Thu Jan 13 23:45:09 2005
...

> the end result I am after is a script that I can copy & modify to enable 
> dosfsck to check my vfat drives after every X boots as opposed to every 
> boot.

I don't know of any automatic method to prevent dosfsck from checking
everytime its called. 
In my experience theres no need to check vfat filesystems that often. I would
move the dosfsck into a cron @reboot stanza and do the calculation of the 
1st/2nd/3rd/... boot there. (Simply by incrementing some value in
/root/dosfsck.value for example.)

Or you DISABLE all dosfsck in /etc/fstab and use a kernel-cmdline-parameter
for that and check it in an init-script.
(grep -q DOSFSCK=1 /proc/cmdline && dosfsck /dev/hdaXYZ) 

Thats easy to implement into lilo/grub, and selecting 'Linux WITH DOSFSCK' or
'Linux WITHOUT DOSFSCK' is all needed to trigger that stuff.

> If anyone can provide a solution please cc me as I seem to be having 
> problems getting mail delivered from debian laptop.
Done.

cu, ms

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