-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Rahul Sundaram Sent: Wed 10/31/2007 01:06 PM To: For users of Fedora Cc: Subject: Re: mounting with "noatime" 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. ----------------------------- Thanks... That looks like a better approach than "noatime"
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