"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
>
> Yatsen Ng wrote:
>
> > The last time I booted I got the following message:
> >
> > /dev/hdc1 has reached maximum mount count, check forced.
> >
> > What the hell does that mean? I never heard of a "maximum mount count"
> > before. Is there such a thing as a maximum amount of times you can boot
> > your system? After a short while the boot sequence continued normally.
>
> I believe there's something built into the kernel that causes each mounted
> disk filesystem to be checked after every N mounts, as a safety measure.
> There's probably some way to adjust N or disable the check altogether, but
> I've never found out what it is.
Its called 'tune2fs', someone else mentioned it in a previous message
of this thread. There's a VERY slim chance that you don't have it in
your man pages. About the only thing it doesn't do, or maybe I've just
never been able to figure it out, is report what the current settings
are. Anyone know that??
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