I thought there was something about turning off "update access time" as well
so that it doesn't perform a write everytime it reads from the device. This
helps increase the life of the device.
mount with the noatime option
eg:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mount/usb -o rw,noatime
Cheers,
Gustin
---------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using Echostar Secure Webmail
pgpL3Wc5Z6t5w.pgp
Description: PGP Digital Signature
_______________________________________________
clug-talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php)
**Please remove these lines when replying