warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Should I be concerned about this message on bootup? I've read about this error in a few different places, and it seemed to have something to do with a kernel bug for 2.4.19 but I'm now running 2.4.20.
I've also read that my system is supposed to run e2fsck automatically on bootup if I have it marked as such in the /etc/fstab file. I have looked there and a copy of it is shown below.
Do I really need to run e2fsck myself? BTW, I'm running RH9 with ALL the latest updates.
Reboot #1
Mar 4 20:28:54 slaveone kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mar 4 20:28:54 slaveone kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Mar 4 20:28:54 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
Mar 4 20:28:54 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
Mar 4 20:28:54 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): 4 orphan inodes deleted
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Mar 4 20:28:55 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Reboot #2
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: SCSI device sda: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB)
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: sda: sda1
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Mar 4 20:33:31 slaveone kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext3 defaults 0 0
192.168.0.60:/home /mnt/falcon/home nfs rw 0 0
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