Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:24:34 +0100 (CET) From: Stefan Hauser <etienne@usr.ch> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal and ntfs-3g Message-ID: <200803282124.m2SLOYMx031281@multi.usr.ch> In-Reply-To: <1206731390.2392.67.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> > since i have a few ntfs partitions on my laptop, i use them also much from > > freebsd. so far, i just hat mount_ntfs point to ntfs-3g, since i need write > > ability too. now i noticed, this won't work with hal mounting. > > after browsing trough gconf, i found exactly, what i need: > > /system/storage/default_options/ntfs/fstype_override > > ok, set it to ntfs-3g. but, no go. default option there is locale=, and this > > is not in the allowed section for ntfs.. [....] > > so, /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi needs > > some addition, i guess. > > I've been looking for someone with ntfs-3g foo to help here. I don't > have any NTFS volumes, and I don't use fuse. There were some threads on > this list a while ago with some things to try. If you could put > together a list of changes that work for you, I would be happy to commit > them. hmm. not as easy, as i was guessing. at least not with 7.x. 6.3 /sbin/mount constructs a mount_type with whatever type was specified with -t, so, no problem to introduce new filesystems. 7.x /sbin/mount has a fixed list compiled in, so mount -t ntfs-3g fails. i think, the best solution would be to have a little helper programm, which does the effective mount. at least, for fbsd 7.x etienne
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