..has reached maximal mount count check forced

[Nick Wilson]

Hi
I've had that message a couple of times on start up.
I'm not 100% but I think this is a problem to do with my cdrom being mounted when I shutdown. If it is please tell me how to unmount my cdrom when I get the 'device is busy' msg. If not please tell me what I might be doing wrong.

Many thanks


Nick Wilson

[Nick Wilson]

Sorry, I double posted :)

[carlywarly]

This is perfectly normal. After a set number of reboots, ( 10 for Mandrake ) the kernel does a file system check to verify all is well. Windows only does this if it is shutdown directly instead of through the shutdown menu. If you have a big HDD, it probably takes quite a time, unless you use a journaling file system such as reiserfs - very quick.

[Nick Wilson]

Thanks very much, so much to learn!


Nick

[janet loves bill]

Slackware does it after 20.

[sharth]

use umount to unmount your cdrom drive.

umount /dev/cdrom

or

umount /mnt/cdrom (that should wok as well.)

or umount /dev/hdc