Apparently, though unproven, at 22:05 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Jarry did opine thusly:
> Hi, > I use one drive just for backup, co I mount/unmount it only when > I need it (quite frequently). Since some time I started getting > these messages in /var/log/kernel.log: > > kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is > recommended > kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal > kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > So I unmounted /dev/sda1 and checked partition as recommended: > e2fsck -f /dev/sda1 > > All tests passed, no errors reported, output seems normal. > But when I mount it, I get the above mentioned message again. > Apparently, mount-counter has not been reset. So how can I > reset it? > > I think, that message indicate that fsck will check that > partition while doing next backup. I would like to avoid > it, as it is rather large partition (2TB) with a lot of > files, and fsck takes quite long time... tune2fs -C The command you used just forces a proper check regardless of what the count says. it doesn't actually affect the count. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
