On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 06:23:45PM +0000, Andy Bennett wrote: > Can someone help me work out where writes are coming from on my system? Is the filesystem in question mounted with 'relatime' or 'noatime'? Otherwise, merely reading a file will cause its inode to be dirtied. (However in modern kernels, 'relatime' might be the default, I'm not sure)