Regarding "max mount count?" of 7:23 AM -0500 1/24/98, Gerald Wann wrote: >Sometimes when i boot i get the message: > >/dev/hda3 maximal mount count reached.. check forced. > >What exactly does this indicate?
Each ext2 volume has a count of the number of times it has been mounted, and also a maximum number of mounts between checks, when the maximum is reached, a check is forced, this is to insure disk integrity, by checking the volume periodically even if the volume is always cleanly unmounted. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.espy.org/> <http://www.debian.org/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
