How to correct "maximal mount count reached" error?

kjcsb kjcsb at orcon.net.nz
Fri Jun 9 04:06:59 UTC 2006


I notice the following in the log file on booting:

Jun  9 14:49:26 conversant01 kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: md: autorun ...
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) 
initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 
seconds
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with 
ordered data mode.
Jun  9 14:49:27 conversant01 kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 
seconds
Jun  9 14:49:28 conversant01 kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count 
reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Jun  9 14:49:28 conversant01 kernel: EXT3 FS on sdc1, internal journal
Jun  9 14:49:28 conversant01 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with 
ordered data mode.
Jun  9 14:49:28 conversant01 kernel: Adding 1044216k swap on /dev/sdb2. 
Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1044216k

I guess it's fairly fundamental misconfiguration and I would appreciate any 
advice to correct it.

[root at conversant01 ~]#  fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 8984 MB, 8984199168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1092 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        1092     8667067+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 72.7 GB, 72725037056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8841 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        8711    69971076   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            8712        8841     1044225   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdc: 8984 MB, 8984199168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1092 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1        1092     8771458+  83  Linux

[root at conversant01 ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1              66G   51G   13G  81% /
/dev/sda1              99M   61M   34M  65% /boot
none                  505M     0  505M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1             8.3G  2.2G  5.7G  28% /diskimages

Regards

Cameron 




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