Ext2fs warning

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Ext2fs warning
started by: JohnJS

Posted by JohnJS on Oct. 29 2007,15:56

Unable to get rid of the single line at boot "ext2fs warning maximal count reach etc..."
Ran e2fsck also with -p and -f.
Running e2fsck with no options reads "clean".
This line started appearing about a week or two ago.

Dsl 3.3 toram frugal lilo.

Thanks.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 29 2007,16:26

What's the maximal count? Maybe it could be set to a very low number.. (see hdparm)
Just a random guess...

Posted by JohnJS on Oct. 29 2007,18:03

hdparm /dev/hda3 reads multcount=16.
Is that it?.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 29 2007,23:42

oops my bad, I meant tune2fs ... don't know why I put that ... (it's monday)
Try sudo tune2fs -l /dev/hda3

Posted by JohnJS on Oct. 29 2007,23:58

Thanks 'thehatsrule'.
tune2fs results (partial):
filesystem: clean
mount count: 17
maximum mount count: 35
check interval" 6mnths.

My question was how to remove the one "Ext2 warning maximal count..." line that appears on boot screen even though e2fsck states "clean".

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 30 2007,02:15

Right, so I guess you could try changing the values/disabling it... though the message should be pretty harmless.

Posted by dtf on Oct. 30 2007,11:53

What I would like is a script that could check for the warning and if found would run the e2fsck script automaticly. I have seen ubuntu do this.

Posted by Juanito on Oct. 30 2007,14:45

...but what happens if the e2fsck warning is coming from your boot partition? On a usb boot I've been using a different usb boot device to e2fsck the first one and vice versa. On a frugal hd boot, I'm a little stuck because the only choice I have is via a "fromusb" floppy boot which takes ages...

Posted by roberts on Oct. 30 2007,15:18

To check the boot partition just use the toram option.
The best senario is to use this combination to boot and check filesystem(s)

boot: dsl 2 toram legacy base norestore checkfs

Posted by JohnJS on Oct. 30 2007,15:52

Thanks Roberts,
"boot dsl 2 toram legacy base norestore checkfs" did it.
Apparently message was referring to hda2 (dsl image).
I've been running e2fsck on hda3 which is my persistent partition.
Warning line is now gone from boot screen.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 30 2007,19:08

Didn't know it was the boot partition. What happens if you don't have enough memory for toram?

Posted by roberts on Oct. 30 2007,20:05

You only need the toram when trying to check the filesystem you booted from. So...

You could boot from cdrom without the toram boot code
or a combination of bootfloppy and cdrom/pendrive etc.