[TriLUG] EXT3 Errors

[Joshua Gitlin]

Jon,


> When you create a Partition you set a Maximal Mount Count. This value 
> is
> used as a nag to tell you to scan your partition after so many
> mount/umount's.

I didn't specifically set this when I formatted the partition, but I 
saw in the output of mkfs.ext3 the maximal mount count -- I believe 
that I remember seeing that it was 64 mounts of 180 days. However...

>  Once you run fsck on the partition it resets the counter
> to zero.
>
> You'll get the message again after you've mounted/unmounted your volume
> a certain number of times (The Maximal Mount Count).

This is the part that's broken. I've only mounted the partition once! 
Well, now about five times... I keep unmounting it and running fcsk. 
The problem is that fsck isn't resetting the counter...

Is there a way I can force this counter to go to zero?

> Note: I don't PGP sign my email, and nobody seems to want to forge my
> address <sigh>. Oh well.

Don't ask me how or why, but apparently a lot of spam gets sent from my 
email address(es). Mostly from josh at tumaz.com. I constantly get bounces 
of spam send from my address to nonexistent addresses... and I've 
actually had people a) Tell me to remove them from lists I didn't put 
them on, and b) Try to complain to my ISP (which is me, because I run 
my own email server) about the spam that I was supposedly sending them. 
It was very difficult to explain to them that somebody (not me) was 
forging the "From" address as my address, and that the mail didn't 
really come from me.

I decided that PGP signing, while not preventing the spammers from 
forging my address, at least proves that I sent the mail that I did.


-Josh
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