mount msdosfs with hal

ronggui ronggui.huang at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 15:31:40 UTC 2008


You mean by gconf-editor? It is very strange. When I add
"-L=zh_CN.eucCN" to the key, it won't mount any msdosfs anymore.

PS: the default mount_option is [longnames, -u=]

Thanks.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Dominique Goncalves
<dominique.goncalves at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:58 AM, ronggui <ronggui.huang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I want to use hal to auttomount the windows fat32 partition with
>> gnome. after setting gnome_enable="YES", hal automount it, but there
>> is a problem. hal seems to execute "mount_msdosfs /dev/xxx
>> /mountpoint", so the encoding is not handled correctly.
>> If I mount it manually, it should be "mount_msdosfs -D=CP936
>> -L=zh_CN.eucCN /dev/xxx /mountpoint". So my question is how to set the
>> things right? I think I need to modify some fdi files, but just can
>> not figure out.
>
> You need to add '-L=zh_CN.eucCN'  in
> /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options with gedit.
> I use this key to add '-o large' to mount correctly my msdosfs
> partition of  500GB and it works.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance. Best
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK
>> Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
>> Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
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> Regards.
>
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HUANG Ronggui, Wincent
Tel: (00852) 3442 3832
Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK
Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
Personal homepage: http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/


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