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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:18:41 -0500
From:      "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege.
Message-ID:  <49908191.2030006@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090209191422.2EDC11CC27@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20090209191422.2EDC11CC27@ptavv.es.net>

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Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:50:50 -0500
>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
>>
>> Eric L. Chen wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I followed http://www.freebsd.org/gnome, try to mount usb disk (ntfs
>>> formatted).
>>> It can be mounted, but cannot umount.
>>> We need ntfs usb disk for large file, since fat cannot support file that
>>> greater than 2GiB.
>>> BTW, I am using ntfs-3g for NTFS read/write support.
>>>       
>> Have you followed the instructions in
>> /usr/local/share/docs/hal-0.5.11/README.fuse?
>>
>> Joe
>>     
>
> I that method really better then a symlink from /sbin/mount_ntfs to
> /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g? That seems to work for me, although I have not
> tested much.
>   
The instructions in the readme are the best way... the patch is very 
well tested and designed to be fairly idiot proof (I was one of the 
idiots it needed to be proofed against)



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