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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/6/07, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The Thursday 2007-09-06 at 13:05 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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> > Now that my office Desktop machine is OpenSUSE 10.2 I would like to
> > have automounting of USB drives formated with NTFS use the NTFS-3G
> > fuse driver in read/write mode automatically.
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> > I think this is in the bowels of udev which I've never played with.
> > Is there a simple way to change the default mount mechanism?
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> Try defining a line for each particular usb disk you use in the fstab
> file, using "/dev/disk/by-id/" entries or equivalent. I don't have ntfs
> partitions, so I can't give you an exact sample line, but I think it will
> do what you want.

I don't think that will work.  We buy a couple hundred drives a year
in the lab I work in.  (Much less enclosures.)

On any given day I might be putting any one of those drives in an
enclosure and connecting it to my machine.

FYI: Up to 3 or 4 months ago we were formatting most of the drives
FAT, but with NTFS-3G seeming to be solid, we have moved to NTFS on
newly formated drives.

Please - no suggestions of using ext2/3.  We have to have
compatibility with lots of machines and outside clients/vendors.  I
hate to say it, but NTFS is the only truly portable filesystem besides
FAT.  And FAT just lacks too many features.

Greg
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