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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.

I think you're confused.  23 means a check each 23 mounts.  With 2 
mounts per day, that's a check every 12 days for the first and second disk.

Also, except mount count, there's also a time-based check.  The check 
happens whichever of the two expires first (otherwise, a system that 
gets rebooted once each two months or such would get checked in a timely 
manner.)