[SOLVED] dmesg indicates maximum mounts are exceeded

[ineuw]

dmesg indicated that the number of disk mounts are exceeded and the partitions need to be checked. This used to be a reminder after an x number of boots. Can I reactivate this feature?

Is the disk check of the recovery menu sufficient to perform this check?

[t42]

tune2fs -l gives you the information, for eg.

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sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdd2
tune2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
Filesystem volume name:   4T6-1
Last mounted on:          /media/USER/4T6-1
...
...
Mount count:              160
Maximum mount count:      -1
Last checked:             Sat Aug  1 00:17:03 2020
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
Lifetime writes:          80 GB

or sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdd2 |grep "Maximum mount count"

the -c max-mount-counts option will adjust the number of mounts after which the filesystem will be checked by e2fsck. If max-mount-counts is 0 or -1, the number of times the filesystem is mounted will be disregarded by e2fsck and the kernel.

man tune2fs
man e2fsck

Also note the -i interval-between-checks[d|m|w] option.

[ineuw]

tune2fs -l gives you the information, for eg.

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sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdd2
or [c]sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdd2 |grep "Maximum mount count"[/c]

the [c]-c max-mount-counts[/c] option will adjust the number of mounts after which the filesystem will be checked by e2fsck. If max-mount-counts is 0 or -1, the number of times the filesystem is mounted will be disregarded by e2fsck and the kernel.

[c]man tune2fs
man e2fsck[/c]

Also note the [c]-i interval-between-checks[d|m|w][/c] option.

Amazing, thank you! The max-mount-counts is set to 0, and the actual count was 193. The drive is clean and I use fsck from the recovery menu regularly, but I will set up a plan because a linux data drive was mounted 500 times.