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/dev/hda1 mounted 36x without being checked

Asked by Christian Lienert

Dear All
I had this message when starting my PC today: "/dev/hda1 has been mounted 36 times without being checked, checked forced." It then check and seemed to have been 100% OK.

I went to ubuntuforum.org but could not find a matching answers. I just understand that it has to do with partitions and start up with GRUB.

I have upgraded my compaq armada notebook to Ubuntu recently (no other OS left and I made no partition). Do I need to config or do something? Can you enlighten me on this issue?

Thank you in advance for your assistance and I would like to congratulate all contributors for this outstanding OS. Whithin 45 minutes all installation was done and all drivers worked! You exceeded my expectations and beat the legacy OS by far...

Christian Lienert

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Best Jonathan Clarke (jooooooon) said : 		#1

Hi,

Pleased to hear that Ubuntu lives up to your hopes.

The message you saw is quite normal, and completely harmless. A disk check automatically happens on startup, but if the computer was cleanly shutdown, no extensive checking takes place. However, after quite a few of these "quick checks" have taken place, a full check is forced, to ensure the integrity of the filesystem on your hard disk. Nothing to worry about, just automatic maintenance doing it's stuff!

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#2

Thats quite a normal message (I actually thought it was 30 but never mind).
After so many times a drive is mounted, there is an automatic file system check.
Do you think this is an error (for instance, your drive has not been mounted so many times)?

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Christian Lienert (clienert) said : 		#3

Thanks Jonathan Clarke, that solved my question.