Ubuntu
partman-partitioning package

  1. Bug #160450
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 160450

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ubuntu_demon (ubuntu-demon) wrote : ext3 partitions should be mounted with noatime or relatime for laptop users

ext3 partitions should be mounted with noatime or relatime for laptop users to prevent unnecessary disk-activity when the head is parked or the drive is spun down.

More information :
http://lwn.net/Articles/244829/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14148

This might be one of the contributors to the famous Load_Cycle_Count bug :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/17216
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695