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 1LdorD-0002Ru-Lz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:49:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D06F0E02DC; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C663E02DC for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-088-066-146-066.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.66.146.66]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKxQS-1LdorA2ckm-0002MS; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 Message-ID: <49AABCA0.7060603@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 From: KH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080929) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems References: <200903011147.09719.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <200903011147.09719.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18DEV0WxyfYItf0VnIE3cdaCSf6jv7E6Gl6oId zhF297XLOJGtBwO83OKyvYCTxIvOTigIaLNKaK9yYm9hrUVfoI CBprlLxEDn+dTvP0pgobQ== X-Archives-Salt: 00895ff3-7b5a-494e-8cec-8715ec952b8e X-Archives-Hash: 3b915a246628cfed8671e82c35e871f6 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