Hello, Please, can anyone point me in the right direction with this problem. My computer is a standalone work station which has an 80 gigabyte hard disk devoted to SuSE Linux 7.3, and is turned on/off 3 to 4 times a day. The problem I have is this rapidly erodes the stored maximum mount count which is apparently currently set for 26 boots. This causes my workstation to cycle thru the maximum number of mounts very rapidly thereby causing a very annoying partition check which consumes approximately 15 minutes to accomplish on my 1.6 Ghz machine. I do NOT wish to delete the FORCED file system check caused by an abnormal shutdown, but I would like very much to set the max mount count to a much larger number such as 1000. I thought the command "tune2fs -c 1000 -i 60 /dev/hda7" would solve my problem. This changes a forced fsck every 1000 boots instead of 37 and mandatory fsck at 18,400 seconds, which is 60 days. As root, the system acknowledged my change, but does NOT implement it because I still do an fsck after 26 mounts. Can anyone tell me where this number representing the number of boots before a forced file check is initiated, is located??? Thanks in advance... Harry Wert