EXT3-fs warning:?

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Thursday 22 May 2003 06:09 pm, Terry Chan wrote:

Terry,

Thanks for the reply.

> And NO this cannot be done automatically during the boot process from
> your regular lunar hard drive install.

WHY??

Is this just a problem with Lunar Linux??
Because all other linux distros I have used are able to run e2fsck DURING 
BOOT. If you look at the man page for fstab (here is a snipit from the man 
page):

     The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine
     the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time.  The root
     filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesys-
     tems should have a fs_passno of 2.  Filesystems within a drive will be
     checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked
     at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware.  If
     the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and
     fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.

Note the first line "done at reboot time.".

I have the sixth field set to 1 in fstab yet my system will not run the e2fsck 
checks.

Anybody know how to set this up?

Ralph

> Ralph,
>
> As also stated in this list before, you have to:
>
> 1. Boot your linux box with a linux boot floppy or preferably the
> Lunar Install/Rescue cdrom.
>
> 2. With your ext3 partition UNMOUNTED, run from the shell prompt
>   e2fsck /dev/hda3
> or if for some reason that notation doesn't work you can use
>   e2fsck /dev/discs/disc0/part3
>
> 3. Reboot from your hard drive after finishing the file system check.
>
> And NO this cannot be done automatically during the boot process from
> your regular lunar hard drive install.
>
> Terry Chan
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:29:55PM -0400, rcrongeyer at rpicc.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know I have posted a message about this on the list before but I have
> > yet to figure it out. I am getting this warning during boot up:
> > EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is
> > recommended
> >
> > I seens that the file system is being mounted in ordered data mode before
> > e2fsck is able to run. Everything is currently up to date. Here is a
> > snipit of my dmesg:
> >
> > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 104k freed
> > Adding Swap: 489972k swap-space (priority -1)
> > EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is
> > recommended EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal
> > journal NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only
>
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