System overrides my mount parameters in /etc/fstab

Question

[.../~]$ mount
/dev/sda4 on / type ext4 (rw,commit=60,commit=0)



[.../~]$ cat /etc/fstab
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
UUID=70739c04-fcb6-4747-803c-824f9c894f41  /  ext4  defaults,commit=60  0 1

What can I do about it? It seems strange. I want to be able to set any commit time I want

Edit: added /proc/mounts contents

[.../~]$ cat /proc/mounts 
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=886332k,nr_inodes=221583,mode=755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/70739c04-fcb6-4747-803c-824f9c894f41 / ext4 rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/megahard fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
cgroup /dev/cgroup/cpu cgroup rw,relatime,cpu,release_agent=/usr/local/sbin/cgroup_clean 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/va1en0k/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0

Another edit:

[.../~]$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda4 / ext4 rw,commit=60,commit=0 0 0
none /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/megahard fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
cgroup /dev/cgroup/cpu cgroup rw,cpu 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/va1en0k/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=va1en0k 0 0

Answer 1

You can control the root mount options by using the rootflags option. To try this once, press 'e' at the grub menu and add it to the kernel line. If you're happy with the result and want to make it permanent, add it to /etc/default/grub and run update-grub.

Answer 2

pm-utils is overriding your custom settings. See /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/journal-commit.

To make the OS stop assuming it's smarter than you about commit settings, create an empty, non-executable file with the same name in /etc/pm/power.d (i.e. touch /etc/pm/power.d/journal-commit).

Answer 3

That looks like a bug: commit can't be both 0 and 60. What does cat /proc/mounts say the options are? If that is correct, then /etc/mtab got messed up somehow, which is what mount reports.

Answer 4

I think the mount options for the root filesystem are controlled by the fstab that was in use in the initramfs.

sudo update-initramfs

may fix it.