Paul Jakma wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
>> > and my laptop has *all* partitions except /var mounted with noatime for
> > nearly two years. no problems.
>> except /var... exactly.
>> yes, dirs with binaries don't need atime... my problem with what page
> is that is that i think perhaps there isn't much thought/experience
> behind it.
>> > kevin
>> --paulj
atime can be very useful for automated tools used to
determine what has happened to a system after a breakin.
Padraig.
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