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Rottweiler
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 3:05 am Post subject: 'noatime' on / (root) partition?

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Gentoo came with the 'noatime' option in /etc/fstab on the root (/) partition.

Code:

# /etc/fstab
/dev/hda8 / ext3 noatime 0 0

Is this a good thing? Never seen such before.

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Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 3:40 am Post subject:

it's not a bad idea ... it's basicly for performence http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap6sec73.html heres a link on what it actauly does

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Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 3:54 am Post subject: Thanks!

I can see where that might improve performance considerably.

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