Scott Grigsby wrote:
>
> Are you sure your system is hung? You'll get this message when
> filesystems have been mounted/unmounted a certain number of
> times (I don't know how exactly how many, but it happens not
> infrequently on laptops, since one tends to shutdown/reboot
> more often than desktop machines). Basically, linux thinks
> it's a darn good time to do a thorough fsck of your filesystem(s),
> instead of just the normal cursory test of the clean flag. So
> when you get this message, fsck is supposed to be checking
> your filesystem -- is your hard drive indicator lit? (Is
> the hard drive spinning?) If so, just let it finish -- it
> needs to do this occasionally. If your hard drive is large
> and/or slow, this could take a little while (several minutes
> for a 4Gb partition, maybe). If there is no hard drive activity,
> though, you probably have another problem. :-(
> > Checking root file system
> > /dev/hda6 has reached maximal mount count, checked forced
<snip>
> >Can anyone explain what this is all about and what I have to do
> >to fix the problem.
man tune2fs
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