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Changing the mount options after a filesystem got mounted

Is it possible to change the mount options of a filesystem after it got mounted (i.e without remounting) ?
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What does "mount -e <device>" do?

TL;DR: What does mount -e <device> do? Overview Over ssh, mount commands are being sent by software that I need to maintain. Twice, the mount commands use an -e option. I don't know what -e is ...
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What is overriding the fstab permissions mounting option?

fstab: LABEL="Shared" /home/howard/Shared/ ntfs permissions,rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=howard,gid=howard,allow_other,noatime,fmask=033,dmask=022 0 2 Mount with: mount LABEL="Shared" mount ...
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NFS server mount options vs. client mount options

On an NFS server, the shares are typically set up in /etc/export, where mount options like rw, root_squash, sync etc. can be set. When mounting the NFS share on the client side, again mount options ...
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FAT Mountoption allow_utime explained

I trying to figure out what the following Mountoption for (v)FAT exactly does (in Linux): allow_utime=### -- This option controls the permission check of mtime/atime. 20 - If ...
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mount --no-canonicalize?

Neither man nor info page provide more information on this than: mount --no-canonicalize Don't canonicalize paths. The mount command canonicalizes all paths (from command line or fstab) and ...
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mount defaults and various filesystems

I read on the man page defaults Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, async, and relatime. Do the options set depend on a mounted filesystem or not?
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