check forced ?

jamaso · 04-09-2002, 01:55 PM

I`m getting more often this message :

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/dev/hda5,6,7 has been mounted 20 times without being checked , check forced

what is the problem ? it takes ages to load , like i have switched the computer badly which is not the case .

BTW the other day i had my time screwed up and after i change the time on the bios and rebooted the computer it said :

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/dev/hda5,6,7 has been mounted 727 days without being checked , check forced

any idea ? thanks

Thymox · 04-09-2002, 02:00 PM

The filesystems you're using (almost definitely ext2/3) are set to fsck (read: 'scandisk') on:

problems
certain periods of time where they have not been checked (i.e. 20 days of not having been checked)
certain number of mountings (i.e. if you don't ever unmount a filesystem, then this can be read as the number of reboots).

So long as it doesn't come up with any errors, you should be OK. It is a good idea to keep this setting, and if you're using ext2, I would also switch to ext3...it saves having to fsck when it has crashed and you're rebooting.

trickykid · 04-09-2002, 02:03 PM

here is a good site that explains the force check/fsck for your filesystems. http://scn.snow.nl/lpi/x815.htm

jglen490 · 04-09-2002, 03:06 PM

The fsck process IS your friend. Time and reboots are your enemy (well, actually your filesystem's enemy

). While you can change the frequency of forced fsck runs, do so reasonably. On my system (MDK 8.0) the default is at 39 reboots, so it does an fsck once a month -- no big deal. If my system fails, it won't be the end of the world, but it will possibly mean the end of some personally valuable files.

Insurance always costs, but it can save you big costs in the long run.

jamaso · 04-09-2002, 06:50 PM

thanks a lot