# Add an option in dietpi-drive\_manager to customize mount options like relatime or strictatime to enable accurate atime tracking
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315
**Category:** Requests
**Created:** [23 April 2025 13:05 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315 "2025-04-23T13:05:10Z")
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### Author:  [@rid3r45](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/rid3r45)
#### Post date: [23 April 2025 13:05 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315/1 "2025-04-23T13:05:10Z")
Hello DietPi Team,
First, thank you for your continued efforts in developing and maintaining DietPi. It’s an excellent lightweight distribution that I’ve found incredibly useful.
I would like to request a feature enhancement for the `dietpi-drive_manager` utility. Currently, it appears that custom mount options, such as `relatime` or `strictatime`, cannot be set through the Drive Manager interface. Moreover, manual edits to `/etc/fstab` are often overwritten when using `dietpi-drive_manager`, which makes it challenging to maintain custom configurations.
This limitation affects use cases where accurate file access time (`atime`) tracking is essential. For instance, I have automation scripts that rely on `atime` to identify and manage files that haven’t been accessed in a specified number of days. Without the ability to set `relatime`, these scripts cannot function as intended.
Therefore, I propose the following enhancement:
**Allow Custom Mount Options:** Introduce an option within `dietpi-drive_manager` to set custom mount options, enabling users to specify parameters like `relatime`, `strictatime`, or others as needed.
Implementing this feature would greatly enhance the flexibility and usability of DietPi for users with specialized requirements.
Thank you for considering this request. I appreciate your time and look forward to any updates on this matter.
Best regards
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [23 April 2025 19:40 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315/2 "2025-04-23T19:40:55Z")
Since we use `systemd` we can work around this problem. You could create a systemd mount unit, which is not affected by fstab changes.
In this example we mount `/dev/sdb1` to `/mnt/example`.
First create the mount point `mkdir /mnt/example`.
The mount point for this path needs to be named `mnt-example.mount`, so we create this file:
```auto
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mnt-example.mount
```
Add this content (adjust to your needs):
```auto
[Unit]
Description=Mount /mnt/example with options
DefaultDependencies=no
After=local-fs.target
[Mount]
What=/dev/sdb1
Where=/mnt/example
Type=ext4
Options=strictatime
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```
Save and close the file and run:
```auto
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now mnt-example.mount
```
You can also mount and unmount like you would (re)start and stop a sytemd service:
```auto
sudo systemctl stop mnt-example.mount
sudo systemctl start mnt-example.mount
```
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### Author:  [@rid3r45](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/rid3r45)
#### Post date: [24 April 2025 08:09 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315/3 "2025-04-24T08:09:38Z")
This solved my issue indeed, many thanks for the help !
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [24 April 2025 17:31 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315/4 "2025-04-24T17:31:58Z")
@MichaIng @StephanStS
Maybe we (or myself 🙂 ) should write a blog entry or a note in the docs about this possibility?
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [27 April 2025 17:17 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315/5 "2025-04-27T17:17:58Z")
As always for such cases, the question is whether it is more work to write a blog post about how to manually overcome limitations of a DietPi script, or whether it makes more sense/less work to just implement this feature 😅.
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### Author:  [@system](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/system)
#### Post date: [26 July 2025 17:18 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-an-option-in-dietpi-drive-manager-to-customize-mount-options-like-relatime-or-strictatime-to-enable-accurate-atime-tracking/23315/6 "2025-07-26T17:18:02Z")
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