The system maintains a count of how many times the disk was mounted and when a preset number of mounts is reached it checks your drive. If you boot your machine often (as I do with my laptop, at least twice a day, when getting to work and when getting home. Sometimes also on the train ;-), you may want to change this count. Try 'man tune2fs' for more information. Today I discovered that there is also a time interval check. I booted a machine today that I haven't used in many months and it forced a check because a long time passed since the last check.. tune2fs -l /dev/device Will show you, among other things, how many times the device was mounted, what is the maximum mount count (default is 20), when it was last checked and the check interval (default 6 months). man tune2fs will also give you information on how to change these numbers. Avi Damian Slavek wrote:
Every once and awhile on boot up I get the message: /dev/hda5 has reached maximal mount count check forced
What does this mean and why does it happen? It isn't causing me any problems, I just want to know what is going on.
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