On 20100327_000658, Tom H wrote: > >> > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > >> > mounted > >> > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) > >> > responsible for > >> > doing this check? > > >> No, that is a property of the file system itself. > > > I think that the fs does the incrementing of the count. But when the limit > > is > > reached, how is the execution of fsck started? What software does that? From > > what running daemon is the job spawned? I have several HD for which limit is > > set at under 30 but the actual count is over 50. How does that happen? > > > I didn't do anything to force this situation. I just plugged and played. > > I'm suggesting that maybe there is a flaw in the design. Maybe something > > was left out of consideration --- maybe. > > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked.
For the USB drives in question, there is no entry in /etc/fstab. Assigning zero in cases where there is no entry in /etc/fstab is easy to implement, but --- I wonder if it is good design, given that the whole purpose of GUI interfaces is to make computing easy (and safe) for naive users. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327042516.gk20...@big.lan.gnu
