[ILUG] maximum mount check forced

[Leo Talbot]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Dermot Gorman wrote:

> why does my system on boot up give the error of maximal mount reached
> and then force a check of partitions hda3, hda5, hda6 even when theres
> plenty of space, as you can see from df...

The mount count has nothing got to do with the space left on the partitions, 
it has to do with the number of times that partition has been mounted. 
After every X mountings (not sure what X is...its about 20...I think), the 
system runs fsck on the partition to make sure that everything's alright.

I'm not sure if X can be changed or not...

Leo
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