Check Forced...what am I not doing?

[Ruben Laban]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Rick Barry wrote:
> I booted my system tonight and instead of getting a
> login, I got a series of text. When it reached
> "Checking root file system" the next line read:"
> /dev/sda1 has been mounted 31 times without check,
> check forced."
>
> It then appeared to do a "scan disk" type operation
> and then booted normally.
>
> Am I not doing something regularly that I should or
> have something set up wrong?
>
> Clues welcome.

You did nothing wrong. It's standard regular maintainance. After X numbers of 
boot sequences or Y days of not being checked (whichever comes first), the 
system will run a fsck on all disks that are marked for regular check ups 
in /etc/fstab. More info can also be found using 'man fstab'.

HTH.

Regards,
-- 
Ruben