The noatime option is often used in fstab to improve performance; it reduces the number of writes to the disk by only recording when files are modified, not simply read.

There's also the -L option of mkswap for swap partitions. Linux kernel 2.6.20 and up now has support for UUIDs, and they became the default in Ubuntu 7.04.

So I bought a random no name 8 in 1 card reader to try and make sending music over to my palm pilot a little smoother from linux. Followed The Internet, got it working, so now I can load up my sd ...