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Mount hard drive

Asked by Mark

Am a Linux/Ubuntu newbie. Installed it a week ago, as dual boot. Today, when I started up, the boot stopped and the system ran through some kind of check - I think it said "drive mounted 25 times without being checked". Once this check was completed, the desktop appeared as normal. When I looked at Places->Computer, and then right-clicked the hard drive, it was shown as not mounted. I clicked "mount volume", rebooted, checked the drive, which again was shown as not mounted. Is this normal, or have I got a problem? Thanks. Mark.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

The main ext3 partition of Ubuntu on "n" mounts usually check itself at boot, nothing wrong.
I think you are talking about another disk or partition...!
Please confirm this.
Thank you.

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Mark (mark-osborne1) said : 		#2

Sorry, I'm really not that technical, so am not sure what you are saying. I have just the one hard drive, which has Windows and Ubuntu on it. The check the system went through had not happened before today. Mark.

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Best Dougie Richardson (dougierichardson) said : 		#3

No its perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. Linux was designed to be turned on and left on, so checks drives every so many boots.

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Mark (mark-osborne1) said : 		#4

Thanks Dougie Richardson, that solved my question.