ext3 still being fscked every 21 boot?

[Nicolinux]

Hi,

I'am seeing the following message upon every 21 boot:
* Checking root filesystem...
fsck 1.33 (21-Apr-2003)
/dev/hda2 has been mounted 21 times without being checked, check forced.
/dev/hda2: 245908/5537792 files (1.1% non-contiguous), 9450812/11058744 blocks [ ok ]

/dev/hda2 is ext3 (as well as my other partitions). Why it get's fscked?






output from mount:

/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda8 on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devuid=0,devgid=1002,devmode=0660)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)


fstab:
/dev/hda3 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda2 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /tmp ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda8 /var ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat noauto,noatime,rw,user,gid=1000,uid=1000,umask=027 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dvd iso9660 noauto,ro,user,gid=1000,uid=1000 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /writer iso9660 noauto,ro,user,gid=1000,uid=1000 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs devuid=0,devgid=1002,devmode=0660
/dev/sda1 /apacer vfat rw,user,noauto,gid=1000,uid=1000,umask=007 0 0
#albus:/store /mnt/albus nfs hard,intr,auto,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,retry=100,bg 0 0



Thanks much,

Stefan

[Balthasar]

If you notice when you created the partitons, it tells you, the disk will be checked every 21 mounts.

You can change it with:

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tune2fs -c [# of mounts before checking] /dev/hxx

[Nicolinux]

Thanks for the tip - i thought that tune2fs is only for ext2 partitions...
I wonder why the fsck thing appears now - this gentoo installation is certainly more than 21 reboots old


Stefan

[Nicolinux]

One more thing:

since my fstab hast two 0 at the end of the line with the root partition - it should not even try to check it...


Stefan

[LockeAverame]

0 0 should only work for not ext2/3 partitions.
even though a small info: ext3 is like ext2, it only has a journal that's the difference which you can also tune with tune2fs but do it only if you know what you are doing.
you should check ext3 manually if you deactivate the automatic check because of the journal some errors will not be recognized as easily as with ext2 (especially after a not wished power-off, a bad journal entry could be written on the hdd after next reboot, it's seldom but it can happen).

[Baintronic]

how exactly does one disable this check period then?
it does not work setting fstab to 0 0?
or how do you just turn it off?

[Nicolinux]

Check the tune2fs man page - especially the "-i" option.

Stefan

[PovMan]

Thanks for the tip - i thought that tune2fs is only for ext2 partitions...

AFAIK, ext3 is just ext2 with a journal. You create an ext3 partition with 'mke2fs -j'; ie all ext2 tools should work with ext3.