Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:42 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege. Message-ID: <499091BE.3090503@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090209192830.6186C1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090209192830.6186C1CC0B@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> 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.) > There is only one sticking point if you use straight csup to update you will need to reapply the patch every time you update /usr/src.... if this is an issue I suggest you keep a private cvs repo as described in development(7) [you will most likely just want to use the /usr/src2 example and rename it /usr/src]
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