So here is my new problem, I added a new hard drive, and i can mount it using:

sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hdf1 /media

and that works fine. I can then cd to /media and see whats in there. But I now want to mount that every time DSLinux boots up. So I added a line in /etc/fstab that looks like this:

/dev/hdf1 /media ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0

And now when I restart my computer I get this "EXT3-fs warning: Maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended" after it checks /etc/fstab on startup, is there something wrong with the entry I put in fstab? I google "mounting a ext3 file system automatically in /etc/fstab" and read on how to do it, but I think my effort was futile. I also tried a couple different options in fstab, none of which worked.

Here is my whole /etc/fstab just in case.

Is there something wrong with my entry in fstab?

dmesg |grep hd displayed that there is in fact hdf1 so i'm really confused.

it seems like you can access the mount, right? if so, it doesn't seem like too much to worry about.

i guess you could unmount it and run fsck on it to see if that makes it happy and stops the message. afaiknew 0 0 in the options tells fsck that the disk doesn't need to be checked, but maybe something else supercedes that. (?)

btw, what is hdf? a raided disk, i guess? i've never heard of hdf, only up to hdd.

You'd get hdf on the primary slave on a third IDE controller.

Umm, that message indicates that if it had a non-zero value in the check field it would perform an fsck on the disk to check the filesystem integrity.

yeah, i can still access the mount. i'm not to worried about the the message i get, it's just a warning. the only thing i want to be able to do is have hdf mount up when i boot the computer.

i thought hdf was kind of odd too. my main drive is hde i don't know why. i have hde and hdf on the same ide cable and hde is set as master hdf is slave.

That's kindof odd, admittedly, but perhaps your motherboard also supports SATA which is set to some sort of legacy mode? Does hdf automount properly on boot?

If it is mounting alright for you I would just boot from the cd once and run e2fsck on the drive and see if the error message stops.

no it's not mounting on boot. it displays that warrning and if i want it mounted i have to manually mount it with sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hdf1 /media

so i'm going to run e2fsck and i'll let you all know whats happening.

thanks for all your help so far.

Oh sorry I thought it was working. You could also try this. Change your fstab to the way it was and than edit your bootlocal.sh

In the /opt directory you should find the bootlocal.sh file. Than you can add it like this (using hda3 as my example)

sudo mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

Save your changes and then set the permissions on the file to allow execution (Open emelfm...highlight filename....righ-click...Properties....Permissions then set the permisions by clicking all the buttons under EXEC). Reboot the machine and see if the partition is mounted. Watch for error messages.

well that worked, thank you very much. i still get the warning (actually i get two of the same warings now) but i figure i'll just run e2fsck on hdf1 and if it works it works if not it's just a warning.

once again thanks for all your help.

Glad to hear it. I have had similar warnings, but when I booted from the cd and ran e2fsck on the drive it took care of them. Good luck.