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 in the

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 is not

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 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. They

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

2010-03-26 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 indicates

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 for

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 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 available in

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. Googling

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 not

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 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 this check?

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

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 incrementing of the

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 itself. I think that

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