There is no way to specify my choice of mount options for external media -- e. g. I cannot specify shortname=lower, noatime, sync, or any other options I want. This was reported against KDE4 as bug 168914 in 2008. It has been causing grief ever since. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A. This is technically an RFE, but it is a regression from KDE3(!).
This is a really big headache. I really need shortname=lower, and I very much want noatime for performance reasons when scanning through a big filesystem. Is this going to get any attention?
Mount options are implemented by udisks, file a bug report there: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues
The problem isn't with udisks, which provides a mechanism to specify the mount options: % udisksctl mount --help Usage: udisksctl mount [OPTION…] Mount a filesystem. Options: -p, --object-path Object to mount -b, --block-device Block device to mount -t, --filesystem-type Filesystem type to use -o, --options Mount options --no-user-interaction Do not authenticate the user if needed The problem is that KDE does not provide a way to specify options that might then be passed through to udisks.
Nudge
My particular use case is that I want to mount all external filesystems (and internal, but that's simply an fstab matter) noatime. Even relatime drastically slows things down when copying large numbers of files from rotating storage, and on an SSD, it forces unnecessary writes, and I have no use for the access time. But that's not everyone's use case. Some people want to mount FAT/VFAT filesystems with different shortname case options, or a different UTC setting, or anything else. And some people may want some devices mounted differently.
I'm not adding anything new, just nudging. I was just about to enter a new wishlist entry for solid about this issue: I wish I could turn atime off for removable devices, as I use ext4 for most. Something defined on a file would be fine, no need for UI.
Nudge again.