Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-10 18:58, Clive McBarton wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda2 | grep time
> > dumpe2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
> > Last mount time:          Sat Feb 13 08:39:01 2010
> > Last write time:          Sat Feb 13 08:39:01 2010
>
> Great command. Good to know it.
>
> I used that and found out that the last mount & last write time are
> indeed the time I booted (actually 15 minutes later, surprisingly
> enough). So indeed something behaves badly during boot, or shortly
> thereafter.

Note that "Last write time:" might not mean what you think it does. 
 I say that because on my system /dev/sda2 is / and I've written a 
whole bunch of data to it in the past 25.5 days, yet the LWT still 
matches the LMT.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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