Check Forced...what am I not doing?

[Derek Broughton]

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?

As Jared says, it's normal.  It is, however, not necessary to do it nearly
this often if you're using a journaling filesystem (ext3, reiser, JFS, XFS,
for instance).  And you _are_ using a journaling filesystem, right?
-- 
derek