Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

[Ben <debian@ausipos.com>]

Michael Schiansky wrote:
> 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.
Noted.
Usually I use ben<debian-laptop@lists.debian> as my from address (which 
probably isn't that good anyway) as that sort of stops people cc'ing me 
unneccessarily.

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:48:05PM +1000, debian@ausipos.com 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.
I think that makes sense to my feeble brain, will give it a go.
> > 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
Cheers,

Ben