maximum mount count

[Ed Sawicki]

David L Norris wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:51 -0700, alan wrote:
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>>On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Ed Sawicki wrote:
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>>>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?
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>-1 is your maximum mount count.  -1 effectively means "never force a
>check based on the mount count."
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So, -1 is the same as zero it seems.

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>>>If I adjust the maximum mount count to force the root
>>>file system to be checked on the next boot, the check fails.
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>Fails how?  Fails as in doesn't run?  Or fails as in says the filesystem
>is corrupt?
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The latter. It says the filesystem is corrupt.

>>>Yet, when I check that partition with Slackware, it checks
>>>OK. Does someone know why this happens?
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>>Maybe it is set to "never check"?
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>The check must be forced if the filesystem was cleanly unmounted.
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No, I run fsck manually with Slackware and it works - the filesystem
is OK. Yet, Fedora sees the filesystem as corrupt.