mounting with "noatime"

[Rahul Sundaram]

Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
> What are peoples' opinions on mounting OS partitions with the "noatime" option?
> 
> The recent conversations about flash drive lifetimes, and harddrives wearing out on laptops got me thinking whether or not I really cared about when I was accessing OS files on my laptop.  Barring the potential forensic value of knowing when a file was accessed,  I don't think I care.  However for the partition with my $HOME, I do care since I like to be able to occasionally delete all the stuff I haven't accessed in the last six months (for example).
> 
> Comments?

Fedora 8 by default will mount with relatime option FYI.

Rahul