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 1LdkIw-0006Mf-4B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:57:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EAF7E023E; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAAFE023E for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972F664654 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:57:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.429 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.429 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.170, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id J8ii6hYgReOv for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC7D64903 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LdkId-0001r0-Hh for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:57:39 +0000 Received: from athedsl-55163.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.192.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:57:39 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-55163.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:57:39 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A little light relief from endless problems Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:57:30 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <200903011147.09719.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-55163.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090215) In-Reply-To: <200903011147.09719.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 26ce656c-ba40-4ba2-88d8-85bbdc014015 X-Archives-Hash: 4f4cf7fbaff0af4f576aecd14cb98cdf 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.)