after editing fstab, what needs to be done to get the 'noatime' changes recognized? do i need to reboot the machine or is there a better way?

update: running "mount -oremount /" seems to work

also i edited noatime to every drive mapping in fstab (as i am not sure which has the web files on it). is that a bad idea?

Remount the partitions should do the trick.

It will not matter if the partitions already have files on, noatime is to stop writing access times on the files, this saves a lot of time for reading the files that is all, just turns an option for ReiserFS and other filesystems off.

DislexiK

also i edited noatime to every drive mapping in fstab (as i am not sure which has the web files on it). is that a bad idea?


No, you should be fine without the atime on all partitions.

Chris