If you have not done so yet, please read the sections ‘Mount‘ and ‘Auto-Mount Devices‘ in the chapter Main Program Window.
This option can be set in the password entry dialog so that it will apply only to that particular mount attempt. It can also be set as default in the Preferences. For more information, please see the section Settings -> Preferences, subsection Cache passwords in driver memory.
Mount options affect the parameters of the volume being mounted. The Mount Options dialog can be opened by clicking on the
Mount Options button in the password entry dialog. When a correct password is cached, volumes are automatically mounted after you click
Mount. If you need to change mount options for a volume being mounted using a cached password, hold down the
Control (Ctrl) key while clicking Mount or a favorite volume in the
Favorites menu, or select Mount with Options from the
Volumes menu.
Default mount options can be configured in the main program preferences (Settings -> Preferences).
Under Linux, the Mount Options dialog also contains a Mount options field for filesystem mount options. The value entered there is passed to the system mount command with -o when the filesystem inside the VeraCrypt volume is mounted. For example, entering noatime prevents Linux from updating inode access times on filesystems that support this option, reducing metadata writes caused only by file access. Multiple options can be specified as a comma-separated list, for example noatime,nosuid,nodev. Unsupported options are handled by the operating system and may cause mounting to fail.
The Linux preference Mount NTFS volumes with the Linux kernel ntfs3 driver is disabled by default. When enabled, VeraCrypt probes the decrypted virtual device with blkid -p and mounts detected NTFS filesystems with the in-kernel ntfs3 driver instead of the default NTFS backend. If NTFS detection fails, VeraCrypt uses the normal automatic filesystem selection. If ntfs3 is unavailable or blocked by the Linux distribution, mounting may fail. This opt-in option can help on systems where suspend or hibernation can hang if user-space FUSE filesystems such as ntfs-3g/fuseblk are frozen while the kernel is syncing filesystems. The actual mounted filesystem type can be checked with findmnt.
The command line equivalent is veracrypt --fs-options=noatime <volume> <mountpoint>.
When checked, it will not be possible to write any data to the mounted volume.
See section Volume Mounted as Removable Medium.
All volumes created by VeraCrypt contain an embedded backup header (located at the end of the volume). If you check this option, VeraCrypt will attempt to mount the volume using the embedded backup header. Note that if the volume header is damaged, you do not have to use this option. Instead, you can repair the header by selecting Tools > Restore Volume Header.
Check this option, if you need to mount a partition that is within the key scope of system encryption without pre-boot authentication. For example, if you need to mount a partition located on the encrypted system drive of another operating system that is not running. This can be useful e.g. when you need to back up or repair an operating system encrypted by VeraCrypt (from within another operating system). Note that this option can be enabled also when using the ‘Auto-Mount Devices’ or ‘Auto-Mount All Device-Hosted Volumes’ functions.
Please see the section Protection of Hidden Volumes Against Damage.
