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Re: max mount count?



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.

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Joel "Espy" Klecker     Debian GNU/Linux Developer    <mailto:jk@espy.org>
<http://www.espy.org/>                            <http://www.debian.org/>



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