Thumbdrive/vfat and noatime.

I just got one of those USB thumbdrives, and was pleased to see that Fedora discovered it, made /mnt/flash/ and and entry in /etc/fstab. However, reading some about the thumbdrive, it seems to have a limited lifetime(quite a few thousands writes though). Which makes me want to mount it with -o noatime -so it doesn't get unneeded writes- (and actually sync also..). Shouldn't Fedora make such devices noatime by default ? (If not, how do I add options that's automatically added to /etc/fstab/ ?) It's also a vfat filesystem on the device. Why isn't noatime the default for mounting fat/vfat.. ? It seems atime actually updates the creation/modification time on fat filesystems anyway. Default noatime makes sense for mount.vfat !? .. comments ? -- Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards Nils Olav Selåsdal System Engineer UtelSystems a/s w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m