Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media
On 20100327_000658, Tom H wrote:
> >> > 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.
For the USB drives in question, there is no entry in /etc/fstab.
Assigning zero in cases where there is no entry in /etc/fstab is easy
to implement, but --- I wonder if it is good design, given that the
whole purpose of GUI interfaces is to make computing easy (and safe)
for naive users.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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