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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