hal and ntfs-3g

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:24 +0100, Stefan Hauser wrote:
>   
>>>> since i have a few ntfs partitions on my laptop, i use them also much from
>>>> freebsd. so far, i just hat mount_ntfs point to ntfs-3g, since i need write
>>>> ability too. now i noticed, this won't work with hal mounting. 
>>>> after browsing trough gconf, i found exactly, what i need:
>>>> /system/storage/default_options/ntfs/fstype_override
>>>> ok, set it to ntfs-3g. but, no go. default option there is locale=, and this
>>>> is not in the allowed section for ntfs..
>>>>         
>>  [....]
>>     
>>>> so, /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi needs
>>>> some addition, i guess.
>>>>         
>>> I've been looking for someone with ntfs-3g foo to help here.  I don't
>>> have any NTFS volumes, and I don't use fuse.  There were some threads on
>>> this list a while ago with some things to try.  If you could put
>>> together a list of changes that work for you, I would be happy to commit
>>> them.
>>>       
>> hmm. not as easy, as i was guessing. at least not with 7.x.
>> 6.3 /sbin/mount constructs a mount_type with whatever type was specified with
>> -t, so, no problem to introduce new filesystems.
>> 7.x /sbin/mount has a fixed list compiled in, so mount -t ntfs-3g fails.
>>     
>
> Yeah, this is starting to sound familiar.
>
>   
>> i think, the best solution would be to have a little helper programm, which
>> does the effective mount. at least, for fbsd 7.x
>>     
>
> What does the fuse maintainer have to say about this?  I'm sure users
> have complained about this before.  What's the recommended way to mount
> fuse volumes?
>   

Currently the recommendation is to dl the patch from the maintainers web 
sight and apply it see /usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.FreeBSD ... 
if you can get it to mount from /etc/rc please let me know since I can 
only get it to work from the command line (already sent a message to the 
maintainer)