Excellent, good to know that. So the update I/O's for /tmp's timestamp are to my /tmp filesystem? Not to the / partition's /tmp mountpoint?
-------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund R. MacKenty Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to find what's been writing to a partition? On Friday 11 August 2006 12:28, Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: >Anyone know why the /tmp directory's time-stamp changes so frequently >and is only a few minutes old? /tmp is another file system on the >server. >drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 Aug 11 12:16 tmp Because every time a file is created or removed from /tmp, its timestamp gets updated to indicate that the directory has been modified. The fact that a directory's modification time has changed tells you that the write activity you are trying to track down is occurring in those directories. - MacK. ----- Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
