From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 21:24:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DBF106564A for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from etienne@usr.ch) Received: from multi.usr.ch (multi.usr.ch [157.161.175.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F38C8FC24 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from etienne@usr.ch) Received: from multi.usr.ch (etienne@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by multi.usr.ch (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2SLOY9t031282; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:24:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from etienne@multi.usr.ch) Received: (from etienne@localhost) by multi.usr.ch (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id m2SLOYMx031281; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:24:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from etienne) From: Stefan Hauser Message-Id: <200803282124.m2SLOYMx031281@multi.usr.ch> In-Reply-To: <1206731390.2392.67.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:24:34 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99f (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on multi.usr.ch Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal and ntfs-3g X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:24:38 -0000 > > 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