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Re: sporadic fsck error while boot



GA>> /dev/hda* (I have several partitions) has reached maximal 
GA>> mount count, check forced.
GA>> 
GA>> do you know why this is happening ?

Exactly the cause it wrote on the screen - because maximal mount count was
reached. Each partition is checked after certain number of mounts - just
in case something went bad and you always shut down cleanly so fsck was
never run for a long time. Without this, you may have some light (i.e.,
that do not crash your machine, but _can_ harm data) problems with disk
for years and never know. In fact, you could run the machine for years and
never reboot, but that's another story ;)

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