Solution:
When mounting /path/to/device, a warning is seen "kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended". This is a non-fatal warning. Please follow the following procedure:
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$ mount -t ext3 /path/to/device /mnt/files
 kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended

To see mount statistics, you can run the tune2fs command as shown below. This shows that /path/to/device should have been checked after it had been mounted 33 times
 
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$ tune2fs -l /path/to/device | grep ^M
 Mount count:              37
 Maximum mount count:      33

 

It is possible to disable this check with the following command (this is done automatically for file systems created at installation time):
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 $ tune2fs -c0 -i0 /path/to/dev

 
Alternatviely, run e2fsck on it, and remount the file system. You will not see the warning again until the maximal count is exceeded.
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 $ unmount /path/to/device
 $ e2fsck -p /path/to/device