What does this mean and why does it happen?
Ok, I'll take a stab at this one. Take this as a best of my knowledge explanation. The ext2 filesystem keeps track of the status of the filesystem in a field within the superblock. This can have a "clean" or "unclean" state depending on how it was unmounted. There is ext2 kernal code that maintains this state. In addition to this state field within the superblock, the ext2 filesystem has two methods of forcing checks of the f/s at regular intervals. There is also a counter in the superblock which is incremented on each read/write mount. If it reaches the maximum value (set with tun2efs) or the time interval has been exceeded a check is forced. In short it is by design. I couldn't really tell what the effects would be of changing the maximal mount count or the check interval but I wouldn't recommend it. <: If there is any inaccuracies in this explanation please don't hesitate to correct them. Thom <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>RE: [SLE] maximal mount count</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <FONT SIZE=2>> What does this mean and why does it happen?</FONT> </P> <FONT SIZE=2>Ok, I'll take a stab at this one. Take this as a best of my knowledge explanation. The ext2 filesystem keeps track of the status of the filesystem in a field within the superblock. This can have a "clean" or "unclean" state depending on how it was unmounted. There is ext2 kernal code that maintains this state. In addition to this state field within the superblock, the ext2 filesystem has two methods of forcing checks of the f/s at regular intervals. There is also a counter in the superblock which is incremented on each read/write mount. If it reaches the maximum value (set with tun2efs) or the time interval has been exceeded a check is forced. In short it is by design. I couldn't really tell what the effects would be of changing the maximal mount count or the check interval but I wouldn't recommend it. <:</FONT></P> <FONT SIZE=2>If there is any inaccuracies in this explanation please don't hesitate to correct them. </FONT> </P> <FONT SIZE=2>Thom</FONT> </P> </BODY>