USB management

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Oct 21 15:25:21 UTC 2005


Christoph Bier wrote:
> 
> I just want to know with which flags flash drives get mounted. The
> man page to pmount says:
> 
>        The device will be mounted with the following flags:
>        async,atime,nodev,noexec,noauto,nosuid,user,rw
> 
> But `atime' shouldn't be set for flash drives. As `async' `noatime'
> should be set. 

That's a matter of preference.

> I expected something like this that's why I 
> investigated to file a bug report if necessary. But still I'm not
> sure whether there's a file I didn't find where further options for
> pmount may be set (pmount knows option -A for noatime).

hal uses .fdi files for specific overriding options - but I _don't_ know how
to configure them.
-- 
derek





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