The default mount option for Ubuntu is relatime. However, for most purposes these days, noatime is preferred, especially for SSDs or where disk speed is critical.
Is it possible to change the default mount to noatime, which of course could be overridden where necessary? At present, I have to manually specify it for items not in /etc/fstab, e.g. external USB drives, which means that I don't use automatic mounting methods such as Disks (gnome-disks).
I'll probably never need or want to use relatime.
I've been searching on the 'net, and so far the only solution that I've found is to change the code in the kernel and recompile it! That is unsuitable for someone like me, not only because I wouldn't know where to start, but also because I'd have to do it every time the kernel is updated.
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