Hi Group
Sometimes when I boot into RH Linux i encounter a message saying the maximal count for the mount point is reached and a check of the mount point is initiated. I don't seem to know what this means even when I halt my system in the correct fashion. Can anybody help me figure this out.
Thanx
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Sometime Today, Vinod Ramanathan assembled some asciibets to say:
Sometimes when I boot into RH Linux i encounter a message saying the maximal count for the mount point is reached and a check of the
Maximal mount count means that your partition has been mounted a certain number of times that exceeds the maximum allowed value before a forced fsck is done. There is nothing wrong with your disk, it is just a routine check.
Most linux boxen don't expect to be restarted too often. Once a year is normal, most non server machines would be restarted once a month maybe, so the value is really chosen to do a fsck maybe once a year. If you restart your computer more often than once a month, the fsck will happen more often.
There's a way to change the value, maybe someone on the list can provide that.
Philip
Sometime yesterday, Philip S Tellis wrote:
Maximal mount count means that your partition has been mounted a certain number of times that exceeds the maximum allowed [snip]
There's a way to change the value, maybe someone on the list can provide that.
From philip.tellis@iname.com Mon Aug 13 10:06:56 2001 Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:31:33 +0530 (IST) From: Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Maximal mount count
Sometime on Apr 7, Satya assembled some asciibets to say:
The variable is deefined include/linux/ext2_fs.h as EXT2_DFL_MAX_MNT_COUNT in your linux src tree
Is a kernel recompile required, or can it be a lilo/loadlin option?
No no, don't change the source. Use tune2fs. It's a user space program that does this real time. No recompiling, no lilo, nothing. Just unmount, tune, mount.
# umount /dev/hda6 # tune2fs -C 9 /dev/hda6 tune2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Setting current mount count to 9 # mount /dev/hda6
HTH.
Manish J.
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