On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:51 -0700, alan wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Ed Sawicki wrote: > > I'm running Fedora Core 2. dumpe2fs tells me that the > > maximum mount count of the root partition is "-1". The > > dumpe2fs man page doesn't document what -1 means. > > Does someone here know? -1 is your maximum mount count. -1 effectively means "never force a check based on the mount count." > > If I adjust the maximum mount count to force the root > > file system to be checked on the next boot, the check fails. Fails how? Fails as in doesn't run? Or fails as in says the filesystem is corrupt? To force fsck to run (on Fedora and Red Hat systems) on the next reboot run this as root: touch /forcefsck > > Yet, when I check that partition with Slackware, it checks > > OK. Does someone know why this happens? > > Maybe it is set to "never check"? The check must be forced if the filesystem was cleanly unmounted. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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