Check Forced...what am I not doing?

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 20:33 -0800, 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?

No, that's normal. It lets you avoid this time-consuming operation for a
while, then forces one. You can change the number, and you can turn off
the checks entirely, but 31 times is fine, and turning off the check is
a bad idea.

Regards, K.

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