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Existing mounted filesystems and their options.

To remount an already mounted filesystem without unmounting it (in Linux world) is changing mount options in FreeBSD world.
Quote "man mount":
[quote]
-u The -u flag indicates that the status of an already mounted file
system should be changed. Any of the options discussed above
(the -o option) may be changed; also a file system can be changed
from read-only to read-write or vice versa. An attempt to change
from read-write to read-only will fail if any files on the file
system are currently open for writing unless the -f flag is also
specified. The set of options is determined by applying the
options specified in the argument to -o and finally applying the
-r or -w option.
[/quote]

[code]# mount
/dev/da0p2 on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
/dev/da0p4 on /storage (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)[/code]
The goal is to change the "/storage" filesystem mount option to add "noatime".
[code]
# mount -u -o rw,noatime /storage
# mount
/dev/da0p2 on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
/dev/da0p4 on /storage (ufs, local, noatime, journaled soft-updates)
devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
[/code]

No unmounting, no reboot required.