Re: 'mailboxes' command misbehaving?
* Steve Revilak (steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> $ wc -l foo.txt
> 2 foo.txt
> $ ls -l foo.txt
> 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 srevilak users 58 Jun 13 20:20 foo.txt
> $ ls -lu foo.txt
> 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 srevilak users 58 Jun 13 20:23 foo.txt
Many thanks for your investigative work, Steve, I think I know exactly what the
problem is know!
I'm doing this inside a VM and have just confirmed that my provider is mounting
the /
partition using "noatime", that might be why! When I do the above on my machine
I get:
$ date >> foo.txt
$ ls -l foo.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jun 14 07:30 foo.txt
$ ls -lu foo.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jan 1 00:00 foo.txt
$ wc -l foo.txt
2 foo.txt
$ ls -l foo.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jun 14 07:30 foo.txt
$ ls -lu foo.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jan 1 00:00 foo.txt
So, the atime is never changed. This might explain it. Perhaps I should speak
to my hosting
provider and request they remove the option or I can probably 'remount' it
myself without
the "noatime" option.