From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ldk8t-0004v0-9A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:47:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17ECEE01B8; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DFAE01B8 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B786DEFAB for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:47:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id T8aPxb5RM92W for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:45:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576CDDEFAA for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:47:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:47:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903011147.09719.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 11428d86-7376-41ba-85f7-998924b8685d X-Archives-Hash: 908080e0680aacc8e9e95d3cce1cd93d As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed checks on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and 26 mounts. (I didn't choose the numbers; they were allocated at the time I was creating the file system.) Now, this box does get rebooted, but hardly 23 x 24 x 25 x 26 = 358,800 times all told. At, say, two reboots per day, that would take rather a long time: a little under 500 years if my arithmetic is working. -- Rgds Peter