Automount USB Flash Drive -noatime?

[dd_wizard]

After searching the boards, I dug through the udev man pages and rule files looking for a way to modify the default automount options for USB flash drives. Apparently, the options are somewhere else. Is there a simple way to add noatime to the default mount options? Currently, the flash drive is automounted as follows:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/F12B-X86_64 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=500,gid=500,sh ortname=lower,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)

I'm using Fedora 12, beta RC 2 in case that makes a difference.

Thanks,
dd_wizard

[dd_wizard]

I know bumping one's own post is bad form, but I think I should rephrase my original question.

Since USB flash drives have a finite write cycle life expectancy, it seems that the default options for an automounted flash should include noatime. The apps that noatime breaks, e.g. tmp file cleanup and mutt, should rarely if ever run against the USB flash drive. Also, I noticed that whoever is responsible for maintaining the liveusb package mounts the persistant overlay noatime when the liveusb system is boooted.

For now, I'll keep digging for the correct method of adding noatime to the automount options of USB flash drives. However, making the system default noatime for them would increase their life expectancy as well as improving system response. I've read that noatime can give a 20% improvement in file access on a hard drive. In addition to that, the much higher overhead of slow and long writes to a flash drive would be avoided when the access time is updated for pure reads.

Regards,
dd_wizard

[MacHala]

if you use gnome, you could try - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...18#post3096718 (gconf-editor may be more user friendly)
i have no idea how to do it in kde, though

[dd_wizard]

Thanks for the reply, MacHala. After following your link and doing some more research, it appears that gconf-editor used to be the easy way to change the options I'm looking for. However, there is no Storage subdirectory under the System directory in Fedora 12 Gnome. I tried using find in gconf-editor, and used gconftool-2 -R / > gconf.txt and tried to find anything relating to mount, vfat, storage, etc with vim.

Perhaps I should ask this question in the Fedora 12 Alpha-Beta thread. It looks like Gnome 2.28 under Fedora 12 is using another mechanism for the mounting of removable media.

dd_wizard