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Re: mke2fs default mmc



On 26-Nov 09:16, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was wondering what is used to detemine the maximum mount count in
> mke2fs.  I am told the default should be 20, but I've got (when
> reformatting the same partition) a result of 24 and results of 31.  Why
> is this?

iirc, mke2fs tries to make the maximum mount count be random, so as to
stagger forced fscks of the filesystems. (Who wants to wait for _every_
filesystem to fsck every 20'th kernel you just built. :)

Thomas

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