HD activity in 10.04

[Basil Chupin]

On 26/01/2011 15:38, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 12:55 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>> The count or re-boots between scans can be set by using something like
>>> sudo tune2fs -c 50 /dev/sda1
>>> to set it to 50
>>> sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
>>> will display it and other stuff.
>>>
>> Hmm:
>>
>>
>> tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
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>> Filesystem state:         not clean
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>> Filesystem created:       Tue Dec 14 02:42:19 2010
>> Last mount time:          Tue Dec 14 03:42:52 2010
>> Last write time:          Mon Jan 24 16:54:07 2011
>> Mount count:              1
>> Maximum mount count:      38
>> Last checked:             Wed Jan 19 10:22:21 2011
>> Check interval:           15552000 (6 months)
>> Next check after:         Mon Jul 18 11:22:21 2011
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> It does show filesystem not clean. UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! DEFILED! Should I
> place a benediction on it?<waves hands hovery hovery>  <waves chicken
> foot>  There. 25 bucks. I take paypal. :) Ric

Shhhhh..... Some people need waking slowly and gently..... :-) .

I just had a look at my system and compared the above to it.

What the above shows is that the filesystem is "dirty"; the file system 
was created on 14 December 2010 and the last write to that system was on 
24 January 2011; that the file system was mounted only 1 time and the 
max. count before it needs checking again has been set to 38[*] and that 
the last check was done on 19 January, which is far less than the 
claimed 6 months period. To me this indicates that while the file system 
was created on 14 December 2010 the system has been rebooted for 38 
times before the count of 1 started again on 19 January 2011.

*However*, if the the system is allowed to run continuously without 
being rebooted then the next time the file system will be checked will 
be, by default, in 6 months time (?whether you like it or not?).

[*] interesting number because mine shows 32 as the count. I wonder why 
the difference?

BC

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