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_saiko

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From: systemreich

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 91

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NTFS-3g locale (UTF8) with hal and automounting

#!/bin/bash
/bin/ntfs-3g $1 $2 -o locale=en_GB.UTF-8

this fix worked for me SO FAR
recently i noticed that it doesn't work anymore
when i have that fix applied and i plug in the drive, there appears an error "unknown problem" and the drive has to be mounted manually
i'm using XFCE
why isn't that HAL rule parsing the locale option?? that problem's been present for AGES!

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cat.7 - where crosstalk is not an issue anymore :'(

creole

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From: New York

Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 7

Re: NTFS-3g locale (UTF8) with hal and automounting

try install autofs

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: NTFS-3g locale (UTF8) with hal and automounting

xorg 7.4, xorg-server 1.5.3, en_US.UTF-8 locale, KDEmod 4.1.2 (the latter looks like irrelevant, at last )

(1) Create file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-ntfs-policy.fdi:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!-- mount ntfs volume with the ntfs-3g driver to enable write support -->
    <device>
        <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
            <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
                <merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
                <merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
            </match>
        </match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>

(2) Modify it, if necessary (what for ?).
(3) # /etc/rc.d/hal restart
(4) Use it!

The original how-to is here; tampering with /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g seems no longer necessary.

The automounting seems every way correct, including non-english characters in file names. Those file names on automounted NTFS partitions used to be my pet peeve for as long as I use Linux .

Last edited by Llama (2008-12-01 19:10:00)