I just noticed the following on booting up;

warning: maximal mount count reached (followed by recommendation to run e2fsck)

I thought this should have happened automatically (it is my home partition so I could un-mount it and run e2fsck ... is that the right command for an ext3 file system?) so I googled and got the following from TLDP

"solution is to get the latest version of the ext2fs utilities (e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz at the time of writing) from the usual sites."

But I have just upgraded all my packages once I learned how to as described in the sticky at the beginning of this forum (I think it trashed my printing see my other posts). So two questions:-
One:- should I run e2fsck on my un-mounted ext3 filesystem?
Two:- Is there some simple way of making it happen on boot-up, or if not will it (still definitely) happen after the set number of days since last run?
Thanks
naps

I am not an extX or Suse expert, but if you place this command in you start up script. Where is the partition that you want to check. It should check it at every boot.

tune2fs -c 0 /dev/$i
tune2fs -i 1m /dev/$i

Thanks tangle, but I am one of those people who boots up more than once a day (KVM switch won't switch back to my machine so I must reboot if using my old Windows box). So I want it to boot quickly unless it is "time" for the filesystem to be checked.
Any suggestions?
naps

Doesn't give you the option to run the check or skip it when you get the warning? If so you can just choose to run it. Or am I not understanding what you want.

No, I didn't make it clear that I only noticed this as it flashed by, and then verified it from dmesg (it is still in dmesg, so that means it came up on the screen last time I booted, right?).
Actually I noticed this on rebooting after the machine had hung on shutdown (because I used my KVM switch before it had finished unmounting the partitions- my bad). So it is just possible that it was due for a fsck on the re-boot but it did not get done what with all the recovering of journal etc. etc. But I don't know any way to read how many times the partition was mounted after the last fsck or how many times it is set to be mounted before fsck is run (though I think I left it at the default).
naps