Eunice Thompson wrote:
>
> Any ideas?
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> From: Eunice Thompson
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> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 7:13 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: Eunice Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:25 AM
> Subject: Maximal Mount Count
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> > I booted into mandrake and got an error message that:
> > "hda3 and hda6 (linux partitions) had reached the maximal mount count,
> > checked forced ."
> > I assume this has something to do with /var/log/bootlog
> > I think I read somewhere that there is a way to automatically remove old
> > bootlogs and only keep the last (x) number of entries.
> > In other words is there a way to automatically reset after 30 days, and
> > move the old logs to another file to be put on a floppy?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Eunice
> >
> >
AFAIK this is normal behavior, every so many boots the system decides to
check partitions/disks somewhat like old Micro$oft's Scandisk.
It can take some time, but is all in all a good idea.
If it finds errors in the file system it also fixes them.
Do you wan't to disable this?, or just delete logs, or what?
Rgds:
Mike Perry.
