On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked.
Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in, dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. They are almost always mounted at boot time due to an entry in /etc/fstab. And that is where the mount count is checked, due to a non-zero value in the sixth column, and if it exceeds the filesystem-specified maximum, a check is forced at that time. But if all mounts are dynamic, a check is never forced! I checked the mount options to see if a mount option could force a check, but the closest I came was check={none,nocheck} No checking is done at mount time. This is the default. This is fast. It is wise to invoke e2fsck(8) every now and then, e.g. at boot time. (This is from "man mount".) Unfortunately, since "none" and "nocheck" appear to be the only valid sub-options for the "check" option, and since it is the default, there does not appear to be any way to override it. Maybe there is an undocumented option, like "check=whendue", or something like that, that can be set with tune2fs, but barring that I can't think of a way to force a check when a check is due, other than mounting it at boot time via /etc/fstab and specifying a non-zero value in the sixth column. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/549335114.21995281269694376021.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com