From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 05:43:36 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 A01A71065671 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:43:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787498FC34 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:43:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JYH002UU7UMRN11@mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:13:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2T5DXjD067722; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:13:33 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:13:28 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <1206741329.2392.109.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-id: <47EDCFF8.6050609@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 References: <200803282124.m2SLOYMx031281@multi.usr.ch> <1206741329.2392.109.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080328) 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: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:43:36 -0000 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)