Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems

[KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de>]

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). Have you been running gentoo for 250 years? ;-)
Maybe your counts are incorrect in another way. Let's say you install
your system. You create root partition and install, reboot. Than you
install all the other partitions. Maybe something went wrong and you
needed to remount partition 4 four times ...

Hope this helped a little.

kh