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, is there some routine maintenance task that should be done regularly?
The reason is to semi-automatically check the drive for any errors on a semi regular basis. It is a routine maintenance task, and ask such the computer is ensuring that is gets done occasionally. You don't have to think much about it.
As long as you make backups on a more frequent basis than the fsck, you'll be right. That way if a file or two is found to be in trouble, you'll have a backup from a good file system backup to restore from.
-- Paul Wilkins
