# Pastebin 8i62fxih X-* All options prefixed with "X-" are interpreted as comments or as userspace application-specific options. These options are not stored in the user space (e.g. mtab file), nor sent to the mount.type helpers nor to the mount(2) system call. The suggested format is X-appname.option. x-* The same as X-* options, but stored permanently in the user space. It means the options are also available for umount or another operations. Note that maintain mount options in user space is tricky, because it's necessary use libmount based tools and there is no guarantee that the options will be always available (for example after a move mount operation or in unshared namespace). Note that before util-linux v2.30 the x-* options have not been maintained by libmount and stored in user space (functionality was the same as have X-* now), but due to growing number of use-cases (in initrd, systemd etc.) the functionality have been extended to keep existing fstab configurations usable without a change.