Trevor Best wrote:

> Question is, is there a way to view the mount count on a device, the
> man page on tune2fs only has options to set these things as far as I
> can see, not view them.

# tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 | grep 'Mount count'

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Trevor Best writes:

> I know how to use tune2fs to delay a forced check or even force a check
> of the filesystem and I also use bonager to warn me when one is pending.
>
> What bonager doesn't do is tell me which partition needs the check, I
> currently have 3 ext3 partitions /, /home and /mnt/multimedia now when
> the multimedia one wants checking, instead of having to wait while
> booting I could just umount it and check it manually and do other stuff
> while it's cranking away.
>
> Question is, is there a way to view the mount count on a device, the
> man page on tune2fs only has options to set these things as far as I
> can see, not view them.

e.g

tune2fs -l /dev/sda7

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:05:28 GMT
inox wrote:

> Trevor Best wrote:
>
> > Question is, is there a way to view the mount count on a device, the
> > man page on tune2fs only has options to set these things as far as I
> > can see, not view them.
>
> # tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 | grep 'Mount count'
>

thanks

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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:08:04 +0100
Hadron wrote:

> Trevor Best writes:
>
> > I know how to use tune2fs to delay a forced check or even force a check
> > of the filesystem and I also use bonager to warn me when one is pending.
> >
> > What bonager doesn't do is tell me which partition needs the check, I
> > currently have 3 ext3 partitions /, /home and /mnt/multimedia now when
> > the multimedia one wants checking, instead of having to wait while
> > booting I could just umount it and check it manually and do other stuff
> > while it's cranking away.
> >
> > Question is, is there a way to view the mount count on a device, the
> > man page on tune2fs only has options to set these things as far as I
> > can see, not view them.
>
> e.g
>
> tune2fs -l /dev/sda7

thanks, I see where I went wrong, I was looking for a variation of -c

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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:01:34 +0000, Trevor Best wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:08:04 +0100
> Hadron wrote:
>
>> Trevor Best writes:
>>
>> > I know how to use tune2fs to delay a forced check or even force a check
>> > of the filesystem and I also use bonager to warn me when one is pending.
>> >
>> > What bonager doesn't do is tell me which partition needs the check, I
>> > currently have 3 ext3 partitions /, /home and /mnt/multimedia now when
>> > the multimedia one wants checking, instead of having to wait while
>> > booting I could just umount it and check it manually and do other stuff
>> > while it's cranking away.
>> >
>> > Question is, is there a way to view the mount count on a device, the
>> > man page on tune2fs only has options to set these things as far as I
>> > can see, not view them.
>>
>> e.g
>>
>> tune2fs -l /dev/sda7
>
> thanks, I see where I went wrong, I was looking for a variation of -c

might have to sudo first.