Tony Gogoi wrote: > What can cause an "EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running > e2fsck is recommended" ? Exceeding the filesystem's maximum mount count. > I mounted "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" and, > unmounted "umount /mnt/floppy" > repeatedly as I was tranferring files from one computer to another. Yep, that will do it. > If a floppy was normally unmounted each time after mounting it, why should > the "mount count" keep increasing ? Because it is incremented whenever the filesystem is mounted, and it *isn't* decremented when the filesystem is unmounted. The purpose of the maximum mount count setting is to ensure that the filesystem gets checked occasionally. There is also a maximum check interval, which operates according to elapsed time rather than the total number of mount operations. If you want to avoid this warning, use "tune2fs -c -1 /dev/fd0"; similarly, use "tune2fs -i 0 /dev/fd0" to disable the maximum check interval. In either case, tune2fs should only be run on unmounted filesystems. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
