On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Chris Barnes wrote: > do you have an old hard disk? once I had Red Hat 6.0 installed on an old > machine and every now and then when i was booting linux it would tell me > that my hard disk is due for a check. I could never figure out why except > that maybe because the disk was old and already had a few bad clusters, it > would do a routine check to make sure the old disk is still going > properly... > > i dunno, thats just a guess..
Unfortunately wrong, don't let that stop you suggesting ideas though. The reason why this happens is there's a counter and also a last checked date stored in the superblock of the ext2 filesystem. When either the mount count is reached or it's been too long the filesystem is checked on bootup. "man tune2fs" "tune2fs -l /dev/hda5" (as an example) Look for "Mount Count:", "Maximum mount count:", "Last checked:" and "Check interval" in the output of the above. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
