Frequent Question: How Do I Find Mount Point Options in Linux?

How do I check my mount point options?

To see what options a mounted filesystem is utilizing run the mount command can be ran without any arguments. You can also grep for a particular mount point as sometimes (specially if you are using RHEL/CentOS 7) you might get a huge list of system mount points. For example, data in the below case.

How do I change mount options in Linux?

To change the mount option for /home:

1. Edit /etc/fstab as root.
2. Add the option noatime to the line that corresponds to /home: /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults,acl,noatime 0 2.
3. To make the change effective, you can either reboot (to which you sneer) or you can remount /home.