On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:47, Patrick Dunford wrote: > I turned my PC on today and it threw up a message, something like this > drive has been mounted 31 times (/dev/hda) without checking and fsck is > going to force a check, which apparently it did. An inode had the wrong > size reported, I think. This is formatted as ext2 > > What is the reason for this,
Disk drives are not 100.000000000000000000000000000000000% perfect, very, very occasionally they make a mistake writing or reading a block of data. You have just encountered one such occasion. > is there some routine maintenance task that should be done regularly? Your computer has just done it for you. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
