Peter Humphrey wrote:
As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing.
Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed checks
on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and 26
mounts. (I didn't choose the numbers; they were allocated at the time I was
creating the file system.)
Now, this box does get rebooted, but hardly 23 x 24 x 25 x 26 = 358,800
times all told. At, say, two reboots per day, that would take rather a long
time: a little under 500 years if my arithmetic is working.
I think you're confused. 23 means a check each 23 mounts. With 2
mounts per day, that's a check every 12 days for the first and second disk.
Also, except mount count, there's also a time-based check. The check
happens whichever of the two expires first (otherwise, a system that
gets rebooted once each two months or such would get checked in a timely
manner.)
