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["Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Nachiket wrote:

> What does the following mean
> 
> /dev/hda10 has reached maximal mount count.checked forced.

It is automatic preventive maintenance. After a set number of mounts,
it will run a fsck whether it needs it or not, just to be extra sure
your file system is OK. 

Here is a little bit more detail found in a web search:

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There is a filesystem utility called tune2fs. By default, a value of
10 is set to it,  so every tenth bootup, your ext2fs will be checked 
for errors. 

You can change it. I have mine set at 100. 

Look at man tune2fs. 

You need to do it for each drive mounted. 

Example: 
tune2fs -c 100 /dev/hda1 
tune2fs -c 100 /dev/hda2 
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Even if you do cleanly shutdown every time, there's always that chance
that some filesystem  corruption has crept in. So each filesystem
stores the number of times you've mounted it since you did an fsck
(filesystem check) and automatically forces  one at those points. 

If you want to live dangerously you can change the the maximal mount
count value on a filesystem using the 'tune2fs' command's -c option.

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