Still fighting with mounts of NTFS drive

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:25:42 -0400
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I've not succeeded in getting an NTFS slice to mount using gnome-mount or
> > by the Gnome auto-mount. I have read the halfaq entry for fuse and have
> > tried to set it up as per the README, but it lacks any examples and the
> > wording leaves a bit of uncertainty as to how the gconf keys should be
> > set.
> > 
> > I have set ntfs/fstype_override to 'ntfs-3g' and cleared
> > ntfs/mount_options. I have tried various things in
> > ntfs-3g/mount_options. I want the FS mounted so that I (normal user)
> > have R/W access to it. I can manually do this with '-o
> > uid=nnnn,gid=nnnn', but, it seems that no matter what I put into the
> > key, I get an 'invalid mount option' error from gnome-mount. I've tried
> > "-o uid-nnnn,gid=nnnn", "uid=nnnn,gid=nnnn" as well as the default of a
> > blank field.
> > 
> > Can someone provide a working example of valid keys for this?
> 
> You may want to ping Kris Moore (kmoore@).  He did the work on the fuse
> helper script in hal, and I know ntfs3g is working for his PC-BSD uses
> (in KDE at least).
> 
> As for valid ntfs mount options, they are:
> 
> -u=UID -g=GID

Thanks, Joe. I'll drop Kris a note.
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