Hi Wolfram, On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:08 PM Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Afaict, the "auto" option has either never existent or it was removed before > > the new mount api conversion time ago for debugfs. > > Frankly, I have no idea why I put this 'auto' in my fstab ages ago. But > it seems, I am not the only one[1]. fstab(5): defaults use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. noauto do not mount when mount -a is given (e.g., at boot time) So I assume "auto" is still passed when using "defaults"? However, nowadays (since +10y?), debugfs etc. tend to no longer be put in /etc/fstab, but be mounted automatically by some initscript. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds