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LonelyStar

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 123

auto in fstab for filesystem - but want to use ntfs-3g for ntfs part

HI,

Since I am mounting different usb devices with different filesystems, I have the line:

/dev/sdb1 /media/usb  auto users,exec,dev,suid 0 0

in my fstab. As you can see, the filesystem is set to auto because, as I said, I am mounting different types of usb files systems.

But when the filesystem is ntfs, I want to use the ntfs-3g driver and not the normal ntfs driver. It works, when mounting by hand with the -t option.
But I want it to work as a nomral user, with the simple "mount /media/usb" command.

How do I do that?

Thanks!
Nathan

tsv

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-12-03

Posts: 71

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Re: auto in fstab for filesystem - but want to use ntfs-3g for ntfs part

It's not quite what you want I don't think, but having pmount set up would allow normal users to mount drives and specify the type, without them having to be in fstab at all.