Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

On 20100327_000658, Tom H wrote:
Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been mounted
and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible for
doing this check?

No, that is a property of the file system itself.

I think that the fs does the incrementing of the count. But when the limit is
reached, how is the execution of fsck started? What software does that? From
what running daemon is the job spawned? I have several HD for which limit is
set at under 30 but the actual count is over 50. How does that happen?

I didn't do anything to force this situation. I just plugged and played.
I'm suggesting that maybe there is a flaw in the design. Maybe something
was left out of consideration --- maybe.

If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked.

For the USB drives in question, there is no entry in /etc/fstab.

Assigning zero in cases where there is no entry in /etc/fstab is easy
to implement, but --- I wonder if it is good design, given that the
whole purpose of GUI interfaces is to make computing easy (and safe)
for naive users.

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Paul E Condon
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