[ILUG] USB Pendrive irks

[Darragh Bailey]

Using Fedora Core 2

I've created a new file /etc/updfstab.conf.local and added the required entries 
for my usb pendrive and included it in /etc/updfstab and now my TinyDisk 
pendrive mounts on /mnt/flash automagically (which is created as required) when 
you plug it in. Only irk with that is I can't control the mount options very 
well, i.e. I can't set it up so that the options noatime and users so that

1) access times are not written which use up the finite number of writes that 
flash has (no point in wasting them)
2) so that if one user mounts this on the selected machine when another user 
comes along they can umount it. I don't really think it should be necessary to 
su when someone forgets to remove their pendrive in order to unmount it.


Because of the way updfstab works, any alterations to the mount options 
in /etc/fstab will be deleted when updfstab deletes the mount entry when the 
usb device is unpluged. 

Anyone know if there is any way to control the mount options the updfstab 
creates for different devices (I can't find any), or if there is another way 
around the problem.

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"