On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Jason wrote:

> One side effect you may notice because of this and similar things is
> that a drive may actually be able to spin down... Im trying the
> noatime option next reboot (or at least, next time I am able to kill
> all the processes residing on the /maxtor partition) to see how it
> changes things.

You can change it on the fly by issuing this command:

# mount -o remount,noatime /maxtor

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