Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege.

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:42 -0500
> From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:18:41 -0500
> >> From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >>     
> >>>> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:50:50 -0500
> >>>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> >>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> >>>>
> >>>> Eric L. Chen wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I followed http://www.freebsd.org/gnome, try to mount usb disk (ntfs
> >>>>> formatted).
> >>>>> It can be mounted, but cannot umount.
> >>>>> We need ntfs usb disk for large file, since fat cannot support file that
> >>>>> greater than 2GiB.
> >>>>> BTW, I am using ntfs-3g for NTFS read/write support.
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Have you followed the instructions in
> >>>> /usr/local/share/docs/hal-0.5.11/README.fuse?
> >>>>
> >>>> Joe
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> I that method really better then a symlink from /sbin/mount_ntfs to
> >>> /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g? That seems to work for me, although I have not
> >>> tested much.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> The instructions in the readme are the best way... the patch is very 
> >> well tested and designed to be fairly idiot proof (I was one of the 
> >> idiots it needed to be proofed against)
> >>     
> >
> > Aryeh,
> >
> > Thanks! I'll go that way since I don't think the world need more idiots
> > today. (Then again, I may well already qualify.)
> >   
> There is only one sticking point if you use straight csup to update you 
> will need to reapply the patch every time you update /usr/src.... if 
> this is an issue I suggest you keep a private cvs repo as described in 
> development(7) [you will most likely just want to use the /usr/src2 
> example and rename it /usr/src]
> 

I already do that with the symlink. A minor annoyance.

I'm still not keeping my own repo and hope I can keep it that way.
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