[SM-Discuss] FS Check on boot

Eric Schabell eschabell at sourcemage.org
Thu Oct 3 06:16:27 EDT 2002


> On Thursday October 3 2002 11:55, Piero Ottuzzi wrote:
> I saw during boot-up that when my discs are mounted the system complains
> about a "Maximum mount count reached" etc etc. but it doesn't start with a
> FS check.
>
> Any idea???
>
Yes, your /etc/fstab has the pass collumn set to '0', which means that the 
fschk is never run on the partition:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

...disc0/part2      /               ext3    defaults,noatime        0 1
...disc0/part5      /var            ext3    defaults,noatime        0 2

here you see they are set to 1 for root and the rest should be set to 2 (see 
manpages for mount for more info).

This was a bug from the early iso's, and is dangerous as I ran into it after 
140 mounts w/o checking... you should have seen the errors I was getting.... 

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