Stuck: "EXT2-fs warning: ..."
Hello,
Its my first post to the list. TIA for the help.
I am afraid my Debian installation is hosed, and I have no idea what I've done. I have made SOME hardware changes to my multiboot (WinNT/98/GNU-Linux) system. That's clue one. Symptoms of trouble are that I get a kernel message at boot time saying "EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended."
I own 4 books on Linux (one Debian-specific) and I do not find anything anywhere about a "maximal mount count." Can someone please interpret this for me and tell me how I might go about fixing it?
My Debian is basically a lot of Woody[Testing] packages installed on a Potato kernel. My fstab does this:
device mtpt fs type
/dev/hda4 -> / ext2
/dev/hda8 -> /var ext2
/dev/hda6 -> none swap
/proc -> /proc proc
/dev/hda7 -> /usr ext2
And that's all. Seemingly I cannot successfully mount anything else once logged in, either: not a new hd partition (like a msdos partition) nor my scsi ZIP drive. The exception is I think I got a scsi cdrom mounted ok last night. Otherwise I get an error message (which sez any one of a number of different things might be wrong, and maximal mount count exceeded is one of them).
Hopefully,
Soren Andersen
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