Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media
>> > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been mounted
>> > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible for
>> > doing this check?
>> No, that is a property of the file system itself.
> I think that the fs does the incrementing of the count. But when the limit is
> reached, how is the execution of fsck started? What software does that? From
> what running daemon is the job spawned? I have several HD for which limit is
> set at under 30 but the actual count is over 50. How does that happen?
> I didn't do anything to force this situation. I just plugged and played.
> I'm suggesting that maybe there is a flaw in the design. Maybe something
> was left out of consideration --- maybe.
If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked.
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