Re: [LI] Maximal count reached

[Dipinder Chhabra <dip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote:

> 
>  hi
>  when i boot  ( Rh 6) i get the following  message  some times
> 
>      /dev/hda5 maximal count reached check forced
>  
> and the system waits for a few minutes 
> what does it mean? is it some automatic file system checking ( i suspect ) 
> If so how can  I set /reset the count  it
> Sunil

You need not worry about this . The superblock of any file system keeps
record of the number of times the file system has been mounted. If this
reaches the maximal count fsck if forced even if the previous umount was
normal.
dipinder.


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> Dept. of Computer Science
> Cochin University, India
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