How can I retrieve the mount count for an ext3 volume?

[Thomas Charron]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Alex Hewitt <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
> My Ubuntu 8.10 system uses EXT3 for the root filesystem and will
> automatically fschk the volume every 35 mounts.  I haven't been able to
> find out where the mount count is stored or how that data can be
> retrieved. I don't want to change the automated fschk but I'd like to
> display the count so I can anticipate when the volume will be checked.

  It really suprised me that I couldn't find this information in the
/proc fs anywhere.
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-- Thomas