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

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Ben,

it is the filesystem which keeps track of this information (not every 
filesystem supports this information, but ext2/ext3 does). For example 
when I do on my system (where /dev/hda1 is one partition with ext2/ext3 
file system)

   dumpe2fs /dev/hda1

I get a long list of information, amongst which I find the lines:

   Mount count:              12
   Maximum mount count:      30

which says, since the last filesystem check it was mounted 12 times and 
it should be checked again on boot time when the maximum mount count of 30 
is reached.

So it is not a script issue.

Cheers,
- Martin




On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, 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?!!