On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:47:59 +1300, you 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, is there some routine maintenance task that >should be done regularly? > fsck does the maintenance for you, and checks disks after every crash ( caused by external sources, of course! ), or every x times, whichever is the sooner, just to be sure.
Inodes are the computers eye view of files, they use numbers where we use names. At some point, extra space was allocated for use, but then wasn't... a program crashed or was aborted probably. It's not something to worry about particularly, and it's fixed now. hth, Steve
