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Re: stat: access time



On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 01:00:34PM -0400, Oleg wrote:
| On Sunday 25 August 2002 12:38 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
| > also sprach Oleg <oleg@tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu> [2002.08.25.1824 +0200]:
| > > I'm curious, if I cat a file on a read-only partition, will stat "file"
| > > show its updated last access time? If so, does this mean read-only
| > > partition has been written information to (to record last access time)?
| >
| > No. 
| 
| No to the first question, or the second one, or both?

Both, I believe.

| > Why don't you try it?
| 
| Can't seem to umount anything (very busy devices)

Then don't umount.  Instead just remount it.  Ex:
    mount -o remount -o ro /dev/hdb3

-D

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