question about permanent usb storage device

[Ice9]

I own a Plextor 2.5" 120GB USB drive which is permanently hooked up to my pc - it doesn't need a power supply so I never unplug it.

I added following line to fstab to be able to mount it as non-root

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/dev/sda1   /media/Plextor   vfat   rw,user,noauto   0   0

It works ok BUT .... last week it reched the maximal mount count and fsck attempted to check it and froze - becasue it's a fat32 partition?
Now I have to unplug it and plug it back in when I want to use it, which is a bit of a pain because I camouflaged the usb cable behind my monitor and I have to climb on chairs and stuff to be able to grab the darn thing


My question is really simple:
Is there a way to disable the "maximal mount count and then check forced" thing for the usb storage device?
Perhaps by modifyiong the line in fstab?

[Void Main]

Hmmm, are you sure it's the vfat partition that is reaching it's maximum mount count and forcing a check? There are a couple of things that make me think the problem is not your vfat partition. 1) vfat doesn't have a maximum mount count as part of it's structure like ext2/ext3 have, at least not that I am aware of, and 2) the "0" at the end of the line in the /etc/fstab file should tell it to not check the file system regardless of what the mount count and max mount count fields contain.

[Master of Reality]

I thought that the 0 in the fstab only referred to unclean shutdowns?
(its an unrelated question, because as you said, there is no maximum mount count for vfat )

[Void Main]

$ man fstab

The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks
are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems
should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on dif-
ferent drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth
field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not
need to be checked.

[Ice9]

Void Main wrote:

Hmmm, are you sure it's the vfat partition that is reaching it's maximum mount count and forcing a check?

Well, I'm not 100% sure anymore now, especially since you tell me there's no maximum mount count for vfat partitions.
I know my /dev/sda1 partition got fsck-ed during boot and my pc froze on it though.

I have no probs anymore since I unplugged it - other than having to climb on chairs that is!

I will leave it plugged in again for a while and see what happens.
If I run into trouble again I'll make sure I have the exact error message.

EDIT:
And I did read the man page and notice the 0 issue, that's why I pasted my fstab line.