Hard Drive Check Forced
Thom May
thom at ubuntu.com
Thu May 5 16:55:02 UTC 2005
* Andy Choens (gunksta at gmail.com) wrote :
> When I left my apartment this morning my laptop shutdown cleanly. No
> errors were reported. When I booted, I was forced to do a full check
> of the hard-drive. I don't know why. I saw a boot message that said
> this volume has been mounted 30 times, check forced....or something to
> that affect.
>
>
> What gives? I've never seen this before. The system was shutdown
> cleanly, and the system recognized this on boot based on the logs I
> looked at.
>
Exactly what it said - by default, ext3 forces a check after 30 mounts. This
is just a safety precaution.
-Thom
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