Check Forced...what am I not doing?

[andy baxter]

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.
>   
It's just a regular test, run every so many times the filesystem has 
been 'mounted' (roughly speaking, the number of times you have booted.) 
You can turn it off or change the frequency using the command tune2fs, 
if you're happy using command line commands.