Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:35:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100326_164643, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > >I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > >just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available >

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:57:08 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > But the actual check is done by *.fsck, which is not invoked by mount, > but by the initscript that invokes mount (if everything is ok). I wonder > if mount even contains the code to do filesystem checking at all[1]. > > What I'm

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Mar.10, 08:52:56, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked. > > Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in, > dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. Th

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:06:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked. Of course, yes! I forgot about that. In the environment that I work in, dynamic mounts of disk partitions are rare. They are almost always mounted at boot time due to an entry in

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-27 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:46:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media"

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> 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. Exactly! Since it is not in fstab, its mount count increments past the maximum mount count without an fsck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
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 i

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> > 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 incremen

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
I started a run of e2fsck on one of my USB drives and got the following: r...@big:~# e2fsck /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) WDP-5 has been mounted 58 times without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error reading block 119439482 (Attempt to read block fr

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_214159, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:28:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon 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

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:28:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon 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

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_003115, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > Squeeze, at least not for me. > > Googlin

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was availabl

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_164643, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > >just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > >in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > Squeeze, at least not

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not Squeeze, at least not for me. Googling indicate