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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:25:42 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Still fighting with mounts of NTFS drive
Message-ID:  <4A4520B6.1090401@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090625164421.23D181CC09@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20090625164421.23D181CC09@ptavv.es.net>

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Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I've not succeeded in getting an NTFS slice to mount using gnome-mount or
> by the Gnome auto-mount. I have read the halfaq entry for fuse and have
> tried to set it up as per the README, but it lacks any examples and the
> wording leaves a bit of uncertainty as to how the gconf keys should be
> set.
> 
> I have set ntfs/fstype_override to 'ntfs-3g' and cleared
> ntfs/mount_options. I have tried various things in
> ntfs-3g/mount_options. I want the FS mounted so that I (normal user)
> have R/W access to it. I can manually do this with '-o
> uid=nnnn,gid=nnnn', but, it seems that no matter what I put into the
> key, I get an 'invalid mount option' error from gnome-mount. I've tried
> "-o uid-nnnn,gid=nnnn", "uid=nnnn,gid=nnnn" as well as the default of a
> blank field.
> 
> Can someone provide a working example of valid keys for this?

You may want to ping Kris Moore (kmoore@).  He did the work on the fuse
helper script in hal, and I know ntfs3g is working for his PC-BSD uses
(in KDE at least).

As for valid ntfs mount options, they are:

-u=UID -g=GID

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
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http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome



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