Check Forced...what am I not doing?

[Nils Kassube]

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.

Right, it scanned the disk for problems in the file system.

> Am I not doing something regularly that I should or
> have something set up wrong?

That's a standard behaviour of the system. You did nothing wrong. I can't 
tell you why the default setup checks the file system that often. It is 
quite annoying, if you don't keep the machine running all time. But if 
you want to change it, you could use the command (in a terminal)

sudo tune2fs -c 60 /dev/sda1

to increase the number of mount counts to 60. See "man tune2fs" for more 
detail.


Nils