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To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:28:30 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege. 
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> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:18:41 -0500
> From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
> 
> 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)

Aryeh,

Thanks! I'll go that way since I don't think the world need more idiots
today. (Then again, I may well already qualify.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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