| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Hmm, it's more complicated than that. vfat supports atime updates, | meaning just reading files from it causes writes. Lovely. So much for | a simple fix. Interesting. I never knew that. But the dirty bit could/should be cleared whenever the FS is in a consistent state. Like: after a sync AND no files are open. Maybe having a process with a working directory on the FS counts as having a file open; maybe not. | Can you somehow flag it to be mounted read-only and then manually remount | it if you actually have a reason to update it? I imagine that that would require cooperation of too many actors (each thinking they are the star of the show). I could experiment but how could I test all the cases> My initial position was: packagekit should not need to access the ESP except to apply updates. But packagekit accesses the ESP when it starts up. <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1991228> Notice that there has been no response.