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
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:52:35 -0500 Harry Wert <hwert@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hello, Please, can anyone point me in the right direction with this problem. 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???
Which partition actually gets booted? /dev/hda7 or /dev/hda1 ? Also try it without the -i command. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
On Friday 08 February 2002 17:12, you wrote:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:52:35 -0500
Harry Wert <hwert@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hello, Please, can anyone point me in the right direction with this problem. 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???
Which partition actually gets booted? /dev/hda7 or /dev/hda1 ? Also try it without the -i command.
/boot is /dev/hda6 and is ext2 type / is /dev/hda7 and is also ext2 type, containing the balance of the 80Gb of disk capacity. These unusual assignments resulted from a "Partition Magic" reallocation when I originally also had a 20 Gb Windows Xp partition which has since been deleted. Haven't tried it wothout the -i command but will later this evening. Thanks Harry
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:43:01 -0500 Harry Wert <hwert@earthlink.net> wrote:
Which partition actually gets booted? /dev/hda7 or /dev/hda1 ? Also try it without the -i command.
/boot is /dev/hda6 and is ext2 type / is /dev/hda7 and is also ext2 type, containing the balance of the 80Gb of disk capacity.
These unusual assignments resulted from a "Partition Magic" reallocation when I originally also had a 20 Gb Windows Xp partition which has since been deleted.
Haven't tried it wothout the -i command but will later this evening.
Don't forget to do all your ext2 linux partitions that get mounted. do /dev/hda6 /dev/hda7 and whatever else you have in /etc/fstab that is ext2. Each one needs to be changed. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 22:52, Harry Wert wrote:
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,
Probably the easiest solution is to use reiserfs rather than ext2fs - Though I don't know how to switch an existing ext2fs to reiser, but there is a way to do this AFAIR. I switched from ext2fs to reiser back when I had 6.4, doing a clean install - I had some troubles with the mobo causing me to do resets fairly often, same annoyance with ext2fs. Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:52:35 -0500 Harry Wert <hwert@earthlink.net> wrote:
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.
man tune2fs Charles -- The box saids Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux
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