Re: file system check

[Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>]

Tony Heal <theal@pace2020.com> wrote:
> There have been times when I have rebooted a system after a couple of months of uptime that the OS automatically does a
> file system check of all partitions. The message on the screen states that the files system has not been checked in X
> number s of days. Anyone know where this number is kept?

  You can use "dumpe2fs" to display that (and a lot of other) information
about an ext2/ext3 partition, and "tune2fs" to change your settings.

  Cheers,
    Tyler