maximum mount count

[alan]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Ed Sawicki wrote:

> I'm running Fedora Core 2. dumpe2fs tells me that the
> maximum mount count of the root partition is "-1". The
> dumpe2fs man page doesn't document what -1 means.
> Does someone here know?
> 
> If I adjust the maximum mount count to force the root
> file system to be checked on the next boot, the check fails.
> Yet, when I check that partition with Slackware, it checks
> OK. Does someone know why this happens?

Maybe it is set to "never check"?