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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
On 10/10/11 18:15, tom wrote:It seems to use the last accessed flag(???) to date when something was last used - seemed to give 'reasonable' results for my machineYes it is using the last inode atime (access time) of any file in the package. The atime attribute is sometimes disabled (mount option noatime) on file systems because it causes an inode update for every (or more recently many) file reads.
Intersting use of atime... I've been turning it off for quite some time now - like years.
However I also don't use popcon. $ mount -t ext3 /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) /dev/md3 on /usr type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/md5 on /var type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/md6 on /archive type ext3 (ro,noexec,noatime) Hm. Maybe I should add nodiratime there too. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq