noatime option for USB flash devices -- how??

[Frank Elsner]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:14:40 -0500 Robert Nichols wrote:
> How can I get hot-pluggable USB flash memory devices to mount
> with the "noatime" option.  I've been searching all morning
> and finding mostly references to outdated HAL keys, and I'm
> not sure that playing with HAL policies is even the answer
> since gnome-volume-manager is doing the actual mount.
> 
> So, is there a way to do this, or has Gnome taken away yet
> another feature?  I have some devices formatted ext2, and
> really don't want to shorten their life by excessive writes
> updating atime fields in the inodes.

On my old FC6 I've modified /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/storage-policy.fdi
On F11 YMMV.


--Frank Elsner