Question : what is the purpose of rw,noatime 1 1

I ve updated the content of /etc/fstab in the system for the directory that contains the oracle database files, with the highlighted change:

/dev/hd4/u1/app/oracle/ ext3 rw.noatime 1 1

What is the purpose of this change? what is the purpose of rw,noatime 1 1??

Answer : what is the purpose of rw,noatime 1 1

You can get a much better description from

man 5 fstab
and
man 8 mount

;)
However:

rw : Mount read/write

noatime : Do not update inode access times on this file system (e.g, for faster access  on  the  news spool to speed up news servers).

1 1 :  The  fifth  field,  (fs_freq),  is  used  for these filesystems by the dump(8) command to determine which
       filesystems need to be dumped.  If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned  and  dump
       will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped.

       The  sixth  field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem
       checks are done at reboot time.  The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other
       filesystems  should  have a fs_passno of 2.  Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but
       filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in  the
       hardware.   If  the  sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume
       that the filesystem does not need to be checked.

So this mount point will be dumped if there is a problem and will be checked for consistency on startup.





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