Re: Stuck: "EXT2-fs warning: ..."
Every ext2fs partition has some specifics parameters like the maximal
mount count.
you can set them using the tune2fs util.
By default the maximal mount count is 20. So after 20 reboots the system
checks your file system befoir booting. If a problem is encountered during
this step it's stops and ask you the maintenance password (the root one)
in order to fix manually the bug.
So in this case, just login and run an e2fsck manually :
e2fsck -v /dev/hda1 (or whatever you system partition is)
you can also check all you partitions .. just in case
when the checks are finished just type exit and go...
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Soren Andersen wrote:
> 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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> -- Soren Andersen (me) in
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