noatime mount option to be optionally added
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: devicekit-disks
i have an external usb hard disk with ext4 fs. when inserted it is auto mounted with (rw,nosuid,
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 18 23:34:10 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 1500
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu4
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 04/21/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 0WY040
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Vostro 1500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
I can confirm that this option is really necessary for mounting optical and flash media. Writing access timestamps to optical media (e.g. DVD-RAM) or flash memory slows down read access and leads to high waering.