On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:33, Peter Robinson wrote:
> I just got one of those USB thumbdrives, and was pleased to see
> that Fedora discovered it, made /mnt/flash/ and and entry in /etc/fstab.
> However, reading some about the thumbdrive, it seems to have a limited
> lifetime(quite a few thousands writes though). Which makes me want to
> mount it with -o noatime -so it doesn't get unneeded writes-
> (and actually sync also..).
>
> Shouldn't Fedora make such devices noatime by default ?
> (If not, how do I add options that's automatically added to
> /etc/fstab/ ?)
>
> It's also a vfat filesystem on the device. Why isn't noatime
> the default for mounting fat/vfat.. ? It seems atime actually updates
> the creation/modification time on fat filesystems anyway. Default
> noatime makes sense for mount.vfat !?
There was an article titled 'floppies for the new millenium' on Linux Journal
recently, you can find it here...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6867
Thanks, that deals with setting up the thumbdrive. However Fedora
already does that automatically. I'd like to know where it does that so
I can fiddle with the mount flags, and if not the noatime flag shold be
default for such devices.
--
Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
UtelSystems a/s
Tlf: 370 45 431
Mob: 943 01 380
w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m