I don't know how many times I booted into mandrake. I have a dual boot
system with win98.
if you look in the /var/log/bootlog directory, you will see each and every
time that you or someone booted and/or logged into your machine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Huereca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Maximal Mount Count
> On this subject, does anyone know how many reboots it takes to hit the
"Maximal
> Mount Count" or the file that I can look at to see for myself? I'm just
sorta
> curious about how many reboots I get per "period".
>
>
> > >
> > > > 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.
> --
> Anthony Huereca
> http://m3000.1wh.com
> Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
>
