[98960] in RedHat Linux List
Re: maximal mount count?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael George)
Wed Nov 11 10:58:12 1998
From: Michael George <george@mintcity.com>
In-Reply-To: <01be0d88$a2344340$0900000a@public.bbs.is> from scottie at "Nov 11, 1998 3:33:30 pm"
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:52:49 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: george@mintcity.com
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> hi... when i restarted my linux system yesterday i saw something strange on
> the screen...
>
> "hda1 has reached maximal mount count"
>
> but it could mount all the partitions and boot up....
>
> does anyone know what this means...
After mounting a partition so many times, it reaches its maximal mount count.
At that point, fsck will be run on it (FileSystem ChecK) to help ensure
validity of the partition, and the count will be reset.
Normally, if the partition is cleanly unmounted, fsck is *not* run on it.
This maximal count causes fsck to be run at least sometimes.
-Michael
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