ext4 defaults and access time

[Robert Nichols]

Andras Simon wrote:
> On 2/2/10, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
>> Andras Simon wrote:
>>> All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab.
>>> Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used:
>> Defaults are sometimes surprising.
>> Let's have a look at
>>   cat /proc/mount
> 
> I think you're onto something...
> 
> /dev/sda5 /home ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
> 
> I definitely don't want relatime there. Would something like
> 
> .... ext4    defaults,atime ....
> 
> in fstab get rid of this?

Yes, except you don't need to include "defaults".  That's just a placeholder
for the case where no other options are specified since the fstab syntax
requires _something_ there.

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