You may get just as much SSD "savings" by putting /var/log and /tmp into a RAM disk. I do this with all of my Raspberry Pi's, since SD cards burn through pretty quickly, and I have several that haven't had their SD cards replaced in a couple years. On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 5:10 PM Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > I'd like to reduce the wear-and-tear on my SSDs and eliminate the > unnecessary metadata writes on my backup media that only slow down the > backup process. So I want to add noatime to all my mounts. Is there any > downside to this? > > At one time I remember atime being useful for tmpwatch, which removes > files > in /tmp that haven't been accessed in a week or two. But I can live > without > that feature. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >