Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote: > Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > This is how mount update works. How otherwise would you remove noatime > > from the options? It seems to be true for other 'flag' options as well. > > mount -u -o atime works. > > Thanks for the clarification. It seems counterintuitive to me though.
TIL that I should always use either current or fstab. mount -u -o current / Or mount -u -o fstab / And then make modifications from those references. mount -u -o current,noatime / Or mount -u -o fstab,noatime / > As it stands, how do we preserve atime status without scripting > around it? Maybe at least the manual page should make this clearer? I want to think that using -o current and then making modifications to current seems to be one possible way. But the man page also says, "When this option [snapshot] is used, all other options are ignored." So this shouldn't work. mount -u -o current,snapshot ... I don't have a system to test this type of snapshot upon. Bob