Avoid hard drives spinning up by writing file access times

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It looks like some directories like lost+found are accessed on a regular basis. This can result in unwanted spinning ups of sleeping hard drives, because file access times are written to the drives even when files/directories are only read.

To avoid this behaviour the hard drive can be mounted using "noatime" parameter in file /etc/fstab.