mounting with "noatime"
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 31 17:06:18 UTC 2007
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
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