gnome-mount using ntfs-3g

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri Jun 5 05:01:21 UTC 2009


> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:38:59 -0400
> 
> On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:10 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Date:   Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:20:38 +0400
> > > From:   "R.Mahmatkhanov" <cvs-src at yandex.ru>
> > > 
> > > Kevin Oberman пишет:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried changing the option to '-o umask=0'
> > and simply deleting it, but I still can't seem to get it to mount. I
> > should mention that I soft-link mount_ntfs to ntfs-3g, so the option
> > that was biting me was under /system/storage/default_options/ntfs.
> > 
> > Is there a way to get gnome-mount to use ntfs-3g directly? I assume that
> > there is since there is a gconf entry for it.
> 
> See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q5 .

How embarrassing! I looked st the HALFAQ, but I looked for NTFS, not
fuse.

Thanks, Joe.
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