[TriLUG] EXT3 Errors, Solved?

Joshua Gitlin josh at glowfilms.com
Tue Jun 1 16:49:08 EDT 2004


Actually, never mind. A reboot seemed to have solved this issue. I'm 
guessing that I was not providing some option to e2fsck that reset the 
mount count to zero, and that this was done for me upon reboot...

-Josh


On Jun 1, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Joshua Gitlin wrote:

> Jon,
>
>
>> When you create a Partition you set a Maximal Mount Count. This value 
>> is
>> used as a nag to tell you to scan your partition after so many
>> mount/umount's.
>
> I didn't specifically set this when I formatted the partition, but I 
> saw in the output of mkfs.ext3 the maximal mount count -- I believe 
> that I remember seeing that it was 64 mounts of 180 days. However...
>
>>  Once you run fsck on the partition it resets the counter
>> to zero.
>>
>> You'll get the message again after you've mounted/unmounted your 
>> volume
>> a certain number of times (The Maximal Mount Count).
>
> This is the part that's broken. I've only mounted the partition once! 
> Well, now about five times... I keep unmounting it and running fcsk. 
> The problem is that fsck isn't resetting the counter...
>
> Is there a way I can force this counter to go to zero?
>
>> Note: I don't PGP sign my email, and nobody seems to want to forge my
>> address <sigh>. Oh well.
>
> Don't ask me how or why, but apparently a lot of spam gets sent from 
> my email address(es). Mostly from josh at tumaz.com. I constantly get 
> bounces of spam send from my address to nonexistent addresses... and 
> I've actually had people a) Tell me to remove them from lists I didn't 
> put them on, and b) Try to complain to my ISP (which is me, because I 
> run my own email server) about the spam that I was supposedly sending 
> them. It was very difficult to explain to them that somebody (not me) 
> was forging the "From" address as my address, and that the mail didn't 
> really come from me.
>
> I decided that PGP signing, while not preventing the spammers from 
> forging my address, at least proves that I sent the mail that I did.
>
>
> -Josh
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