Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege.

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Mon Feb 9 11:14:25 PST 2009


> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:50:50 -0500
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at 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.
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