Fwd: Re: gnome-mount using ntfs-3g

Gary Dunn osp at aloha.com
Thu Jun 4 23:42:20 UTC 2009


> From:   	 "R.Mahmatkhanov" <cvs-src at yandex.ru>
>  To:  	 Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net>
>  CC:  	 gnome at freebsd.org
>  Date:  	 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:20:38 +0400
>  Subject:  	 Re: gnome-mount using ntfs-3g
> 
> Kevin Oberman :
>> I need to use ntfs-3g for mounting NTFS disks as R/W. Unfortunately,
>> when I plug in a removable drive, I get:
>> ntfs-3g: Unknown option '-m'. Please see 'mount_ntfs --help' for more
>> information.
>> 
>> I need to make gnome-mount use '-o umask=' instead of -m. Is this
>> possible without major surgery?
> 
> Try to play with GConf editor. See that tree:
> /system/storage/default_options/ntfs-3g, and ``mount_options'' key
> value.

See also the ntfs node, key "mount_options" is "[-m=755]. There is your -m flag. I am interested to see how this turns out.

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