On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:06:59PM +1200, kjcsb wrote: > Jun 9 14:49:28 conversant01 kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count > reached, running e2fsck is recommended As it suggests, you should run fsck periodically. shutdown -F will force a fsck of all partitions on the next reboot. > I guess it's fairly fundamental misconfiguration and I would appreciate any > advice to correct it. You can adjust how often (how many mounts, or how long in time) it requests you do this check with tune2fs on a per-partition basis. The man page has lots of info. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk