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 !?
There was an article titled 'floppies for the new millenium' on Linux Journal
recently, you can find it here...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6867