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brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,796

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Best Mount Options for various file systems

I've been googling about to find the the best options to use when mounting my ext3 USB External.

seems everyone stays away from specifics and says

a) here's the default/auto options

b) you're options will depend on your uses/needs

c) here's a long and cryptic list of what each option means (aka: RTFMan-page)

so i thought, hey archers... what options do you use, for what file systems, and why?

might help others as well as myself

mine:

-t ext3 -o rw,noauto,async,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatime

-t vfat -o rw,noauto,flush,dirsync,noexec,nodev,noatime,dmask=000,fmask=111

don't ask me what or why; they were pulled from the udev wiki

thanks

Last edited by brisbin33 (2008-12-01 15:59:13)

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 644

Re: Best Mount Options for various file systems

I use JFS and I did two things to "tweak" this FS:

1. I enabled deadline elevator, which require adding one option into /boot/grub/menu.lst file

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/8b3e10c8-d868-4d49-82b3-a906fb63768b ro quiet splash vga=792
initrd /kernel26.img elevator=deadline

2. I'm using noatime option in /etc/fstab file, i.e.

/dev/sda7 / jfs defaults,noatime 0 1

Last edited by Zibi1981 (2008-11-26 20:17:19)

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