From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) Description of problem: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended This message displays during boot and is in "dmesg" file. But the tune2fs -l (ell) option that shows the superblock info of my 3 ext2 partitions (root "/", /home and /boot) all have approximately this info: Mount count: 2 Maximum mount count: 20 Last checked: Tue Oct 2 21:16:32 2001 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Sun Mar 31 20:16:32 2002 so you can see that I just ran fsck which I guess would have been e2fsck on ext2 partitions. I ran it by "shutdown -F" which forced the fsck on the next boot. But it keeps giving this message to run e2fsck even though I think I just did. The boot messages say these partitions are all clean. But the tune2fs -l (ell) option says "not clean" - I don't know what that means - maybe just that they are in use at the moment? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. shutdown -F -r now 2. (watch the boot messages as fsck runs on ext2 partitions) 3. reboot 4. see the message again: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Actual Results: This same thing, repeatedly. Expected Results: After rebooting by shutdown -F which I think runs e2fsck, and then booting again, on the second boot, I don't think I should see the message to rerun e2fsck again. Additional info: My system is dual-boot RedHat 5.1 with Windows 98. The Windows partition (file type vfat) is visible from the Linux side and I've been using it a bit lately. I don't know if this is an unnecessary message that's not reading the count correctly, or if it is confused by daylight savings time, or if something bad is about to happen to my file system, possibly bringing down the Windows side, too, which would be very bad for me, because I use this computer to work. I have the "dmesg", output of each ext2's "tune2fs -l" (except the swap partition's), and the "fstab" file if you would like to look at those. Please write me if you know what this is, but I spent a few hours searching through groups.google.com and your search engine, too, and didn't find something exactly applicable to this.
Created attachment 33298 [details] fstab, output of "tune2fs -l /dev/hdaX", dmesg
Sorry! That's RedHat 6.1, not 5.1.
Is this fixed by recompiling e.g. the e2fsprogs version from RHL 6.2 with "rpm --rebuild <6.2-version>" and installing that on your machine? Thanks, Florian La Roche
Should be working fine for current versions, otherwise please re-open or open a new one. Thanks for your feedback, Florian La Roche