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Author: Narcis Garcia
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] noatime by default
El 27/08/17 a les 20:53, John Franklin ha escrit:
> On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 16:14 +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 01:03:10 +0200
>> Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>> I'd like to recommend another improvement: let's make the installer
>>> default
>>> to noatime for fstab it creates.
>>
>>
>> I agree.
>
> I don't. Adding noatime by default will break some software that
> relies on atime, in particular mutt and popcon. Keeping relatime is
> sufficient.
>
> https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2009/03/27/relatime-recap/
>
> jf
>


Does anybody know some way to configure an already installed system to
mount points with noatime by default?
I'm specially interested for USB pendrives, that are automatically
mounted in a desktop environment.