Mount options for external drive

[Andy Campbell]

>> So it all working, except I was looking for ways for setting mount
>> options i.e noatime, nodiratime.  Is it possible ? Some sort of HAL
>> policy ?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice
>> Andy
>>
>>
> On my F11-Gnome edition running most of the time in runlevel: 3 I have
> the following line, for example, for floppy: /dev/floppy		/
media/floppy	
> auto	user,noauto	0 0 I can boot it without floppy inserted - no 
problems
> here. I have the same lines for USB-drives and if I plug it after
> X-server has been started I have the drive auto-mounted. Probably Crag
> White will give you a better solution. Ah, nearly forgot that! man fstab
> 

But doesn't this mean you have to manually mount the floppy/USB if its 
already inserted/connected when you boot.  - its not automatically 
available.

I'm using the noauto option to stop some partitions from being mounted 
that I don't want to see after changing filesystem-mount-system-internal.

Andy