Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege.

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 17 22:09:49 PST 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:06 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 13:50 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> Yes, I tried using /usr/local/share/hal/mount-fuse .
> # mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig
> # cp /usr/local/share/hal/mount-fuse /sbin/mount_ntfs
> # cp /usr/local/share/hal/mount-fuse /sbin/mount_ntfs-3g
> but results the same problem. same as:
> # ln -sf /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g

Can you try this patch to see if unmounting ntfs-3g volumes works:

http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-tools_hal-storage-unmount.c

Joe

> 
> /Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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