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

[Jerry Feldman]

On 10/06/2009 10:19 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> Thanks Ken, Dave and Ben for the answers and thoughtful analysis. I 
> currently have essentially one large partition for Linux and another 
> large partition for Vista. I think when I set up my next system I'm 
> going to make the granularity of the file systems finer by dividing up 
> the mount points/partitions. It's been a standard practice for a long 
> time to separate system and data partitions/disks primarily for backups 
> but in the case of a file system check, it speeds operations enormously.
>   
The tune2fs(8) command allows you to change both the number of mounts
and the time interval. With the addition of journalizing file systems,
the time cost of fsck certainly has been reduced.  For the most part,
especially for laptops, many people just use 1 or 2 partitions. In the
olden days, we would segment our partitions as you mentioned above, for
backup and other purposes. And, with todays large drives, if you want a
finer granularity, LVM can serve you well because of its ease in being
resized.

Basically, the right way to partition a system depends much on how it is
going to be used. Certainly, the system data
(/etc,/dev/,/bin,/sbin,/usr...) is very stable, and you read from it
mostly. /var is a good candidate for a separate partition because it
contains a lot of volatile data (as does /tmp). /home is also a good
candidate to be in its own partition. But, in the olden days we used to
use the Unix dump(8) to back up by file system, but today we have a lot
of good backup alternatives.


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