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#1 2010-01-06 18:10:35

Surgat_
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Registered: 2007-08-08
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[SOLVED] About automounting - HAL? Udev? PolicyKit?

Hello there,

I've been here for quite long, but I've never really managed to get automounting on my NTFS external drive. The problem is that now I have two NTFS disks and the workarounds I used have become too tedious. So I have two options: I can format my disks as FAT32 (I need them windoze compatible) or fix the automounting problem. I don't have many files over 4 GB, but I'd rather stay with NTFS due to FAT32's fragmentation.

So I've been through several wiki pages trying to find a fix, but haven't found one yet. I have added the policykit config suggested in the HAL wiki page [1] and found some tricks that no longer work in the Udev wiki page [2], with no luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

FTR, the error I get when I try to mount an external NTFS hard drive with pcmanfm is org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure. Nautilus doesn't even show it in 'Computer', although it shows a pendrive. I haven't found any relevant errors in /var/log/{daemon,errors,user}.log

Thanks in advance

[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Mounting_fails
[2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … SB_devices

Last edited by Surgat_ (2010-01-06 18:28:57)

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#2 2010-01-06 18:15:50

sHyLoCk
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Re: [SOLVED] About automounting - HAL? Udev? PolicyKit?

Just install ntfs-3g and mount option umask=000


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#3 2010-01-06 18:28:36

Surgat_
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Registered: 2007-08-08
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Re: [SOLVED] About automounting - HAL? Udev? PolicyKit?

I've solved it just commenting its line in fstab... I knew it was something dumb smile

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