Re: "Maximal Mount Count"?

[Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands <consigliere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Williams wrote:

> This message is normal and healty.  The maximum mount count is a value stored
> in the header of the filesystem that says how many times it has been mounted
> sinsce it was lasted checked.  The program that does the checking is called
> fsck,  and it automatically gets run anytime a file system reaches it's maximum
> count.  There are ways to adjust this value but I don't advice doing so.
>  Having a periodic check of the fielsystem is a good idea.  This will always
> happen if you turn you machinve off without unmounting the filesystems,  but
> with a message "Filesystem no cleanly unmounted."  Think of fsck as scandisk on
> steroids.

Sorry about that confusion.  I'm VERY familiar with fsck, just not
the 'maximal mount count'.

Back in the good ole' days of System III,  fsck was an option at
boottime.  You ran it interactively.  I'm very tickled with the automated
fsck nowadays.

As long as the 'maximal mount count' is a normal thing, I'm happy!

Much thanks!

>>Matt<<


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