On 05-Apr-99 Tina wrote: >> Richard Booth wrote: >> What does this mean: >> maximal mount count, check forced? >> It appears sometimes on booting SuSE Linux 6.0 > > This is what the LDP Linux-FAQ says: > > This message is issued by the kernel when it mounts a file system > that's marked as clean, but whose ``number of mounts since check'' > counter has reached the predefined value. The solution is to get the > latest version of the ext2fs utilities Calling this "the solution" implies that the message is "a problem". Maximal mount count is there for a purpose, which has to do with the fact that you can have a filesystem cleanly shut down and marked as "clean", yet still have errors on it which would be picked up by running fsck. Since there is the possibility of a filesystem error creeeping in over time, it is wise to check it anyway, once in a while. It is handy that the system does this for you automatically, and the only change I could recommend would possibly be to increase the value of max-mount-count but not so much that it hardly ever happens. It may be irritating that once in a while the system takes 10 minutes to boot instead of 2, but I reckon it's worth it. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-Apr-99 Time: 20:59:02 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
