On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:03:28PM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de> wrote:
> 
> > Peter Humphrey schrieb:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is incorrect. 179400 mounts would be enough (24 and 26 can both be
> > divided by 2).
> 
> Correct.  I erred in saying that 23,24,25,26 are relatively prime as you
> noted.  In general if it was a1,a2,...an the answer would be
> LCM(a1,a2,...,an), where LCM abbreviates Least Common Multiple.
> 
> allan

What about battery? If that's a laptop checks are deferred if running on
battery at boot time, so it can happen that all the partitions are
fscked the first time you boot on AC.

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