gnome-mount using ntfs-3g

[Kevin Oberman]

> 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 .

This almost worked. The only problem is that /usr/local/bin is not in
the path as boot time, so that the fixed NTFS slice on my system disk
failed to mount. I suggest modifying the text in the file to put the
full path to the executable for the mount. 
FUSE_HELPER="/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g"

Other than this minor tweak, things are working fine for me on that
front.

Thanks so much for the pointer.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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