On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 04:12 -0700, Slawek Drabot wrote:
> I like your idea of setting the noatime mount option and I was looking to set
> that for all my automounted USB disks, problem is, cannot find the location
> for setting automount preferences. I'm using 8.04 and notice there is no
> autofs process and my initial investigation points to gnome preferences.
>
> Anyone played around with automount settings in 8.04?
>
> "
> 3) Unless you specifically need access time stamps, mount the partition
> with the "noatime" option. 99% of users I know don't need atime stamps,
> and mounting with the noatime flag can reduce disk writes, I/O and
> general mount/unmount faults by a dramatic amount. This is particularly
> true if you are a database user (any database - MySQL, Postgres, SQLite,
> or proprietary stuff). Tagging the disk with a date stamp every time
> someone opens the file for read is not really necessary unless you have
> very specific security requirements in your business. All other
> timestamps (including create and modify) are left alone by "noatime",
> and they work as expected.
> "
You can try editing /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi as root (or
using sudo). It looks something like the xml at the bottom of this
message (this is based on hardy). Please note I haven't tested this,
and if it doesn't work as expected, call Canonical not me ;) You will
also need to reboot or run "sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart" after making
the changes, then plug in your USB key. to see if it works run "mount"
in a terminal.
<device>
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
<device>
<match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime"
type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
a follow up post to let others know if worked would be a nice touch :)
Cheers
Dave
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