To find, how many times my box has rebooted

gsiva · 05-30-2009, 01:00 AM

Hi,

Is there any command to find out how many times my box has been rebooted.

veerain · 05-30-2009, 01:19 AM

I don't know of such a command. But you make it out from
/var/log/messages file.

gsiva · 05-30-2009, 01:40 AM

Hi,

During the mean time, I did a search and find out with the command
tune2fs, with the option as -l

#tune2fs -l /dev/hda4

Note: /dev/hda4 may be any partition, but / partition is fine to go with .

Result:

Mount count: 4

bathory · 05-30-2009, 02:02 AM

Hi,

You can use

Code:

last reboot

If you're not rotating wtmp logs, it will show all the reboots, or else it will show show the reboots after the last log rotation.

syg00 · 05-30-2009, 02:05 AM

"last | grep -i "^reboot" | wc -l"
Might give you some idea.

gsiva · 05-30-2009, 02:12 AM

Yes, last reboot is a best option, that too will show only if the wtmp file exists under the /var/log/, if not it will not show with the last reboot. I hope the result which I come out is a better one.

Thank for your update.

Please let me know if there could be any other options to go with.