Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:13:28 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal and ntfs-3g Message-ID: <47EDCFF8.6050609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1206741329.2392.109.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <200803282124.m2SLOYMx031281@multi.usr.ch> <1206741329.2392.109.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:24 +0100, Stefan Hauser wrote: > >>>> 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. >> > > Yeah, this is starting to sound familiar. > > >> i think, the best solution would be to have a little helper programm, which >> does the effective mount. at least, for fbsd 7.x >> > > What does the fuse maintainer have to say about this? I'm sure users > have complained about this before. What's the recommended way to mount > fuse volumes? > Currently the recommendation is to dl the patch from the maintainers web sight and apply it see /usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.FreeBSD ... if you can get it to mount from /etc/rc please let me know since I can only get it to work from the command line (already sent a message to the maintainer)
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