Re: Screen Resolution in Kubuntu

On 29 May 2007, Tony Houghton spake thusly:

In <871wh0216b.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 28 May 2007, Tony Houghton outgrape:

In <87d50lkawe.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

max-mount-counts is useful mostly iff mounting/unmounting is likely to
cause extra corruption. I've heard of some ancient Unix systems on which
this was true, but I suspect that parameter is mostly there out of
historical inertia now. (Note that mke2fs will try to a different value
for this parameter in every filesystem to stop thundering herds of
fscks: you can't really avoid those with the age-based check.)

You can set a slightly different number of days for each partition.

BTW I even remembered something I saw in an RI Christmas Lecture and
used prime numbers :). It'll still take a few iterations before they get
staggered by more than a few days though, in other words it'll take
years!

I've
just thought, this is another good argument in favour of using multiple
partitions.

fsck does that anyway.

Does what? I don't get what you mean.

I meant `mke2fs does that anyway', i.e. uses a different prime number of
days as the check interval for each new filesystem.

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