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 1Le1RE-0008Vv-J2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:15:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99D80E0206; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F20E0206 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so911755fga.14 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:15:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:x-homepage:x-operating-system :user-agent; bh=lkHnGY3wIix8eaG8+AG/rTDuH3tW8JyvTblYEzrUYZA=; b=RcjgrEdU7x+3EENy/hUj2lWf9QszP7BDyaIPEjmw7tuLsWcI9MLmfgUnn+T1CQb6+x 17Xx2ymCFrB9mLTgXgUME4K1pwtaTFc78SMNOpXvblxxsPNu8X/luKsd0gv1gvP0RJGA cSKlcsd2DwjJI8glewJ3ZrfaFKBHXgbYZ+WsA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :x-homepage:x-operating-system:user-agent; b=futCfgEQ2ZmosLTlpX2JQfxjEWeQWtqsxWLcMqzfc7nBYuHY6f9k++kpVWsqMyoebZ /nRVxgmquUngmVLVfnDrqmFluEsSfOZSvgkZDl7BBeNCDgDOcxfGgJQ4aPUx4UGakGww VQeiz2uclrTAP5tmDOjnRgxsiuYyqU+W96OFQ= Received: by 10.86.95.20 with SMTP id s20mr6031090fgb.43.1235974537752; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:15:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from cubotto.ath.cx (host240-182-dynamic.56-82-r.retail.telecomitalia.it [82.56.182.240]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm7016131fge.34.2009.03.01.22.15.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:15:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:09:31 +0000 From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems Message-ID: <20090302070931.GA17633@cubotto.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200903011147.09719.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <49AABCA0.7060603@konstantinhansen.de> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Homepage: http://topperh.blogspot.com X-Operating-System: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 00840450-da20-42dc-b50a-af0f122efe93 X-Archives-Hash: 5d7de726f4af3bf343e69f703e43465c --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:03:28PM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 KH w= rote: >=20 > > 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=20 > >> on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and 26= =20 > >> mounts. (I didn't choose the numbers; they were allocated at the time = I was=20 > >> creating the file system.) > >> > >> Now, this box does get rebooted, but hardly 23 x 24 x 25 x 26 =3D 358,= 800=20 > >> times all told. At, say, two reboots per day, that would take rather a= long=20 > >> time: a little under 500 years if my arithmetic is working. > >> > >> =20 > > Hi, > > > > this is incorrect. 179400 mounts would be enough (24 and 26 can both be > > divided by 2). >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D TopperH =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmrhisACgkQTusdC+HYtiKqcQCePPMeypuYfD0eou4A0N242Mzf paMAn0n8fkNx+OW+MfVqFGjJFOdXtI7v =CUV9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--