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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293433#c11
--- Comment #11 from Bernhard Kaindl
The name of the file system driver to use by default when 'ntfs' is detected. > This is useful for configuring the system to use the 'ntfs-3g' driver for all > 'ntfs' file systems by default. User can still choose to use the 'ntfs' file system driver by overriding it per-volume or on the command line
At least with this configuration, I simply run gnome-mount -t -p 'FreeAgent Drive' ('FreeAgent Drive' is the NTFS-label of an external NTFS disk which I have) to unmount, add "-u" as the user who has the privilege "desktop-console" (which I get when I'm logged in at the system console = by default: sit before the computer) and my drive is mounted thru hal. Due to the "-t", I also get textual info back from gnome-mount about what it just did, and not only the version string. Because I did ran gconf-editor before that and went in it to /system/storage/default_options/ntfs-3g, and entered the values locale=en_US.UTF-8 force dmask=022 fmask=033 It actually mounts with these options, but it does not show me these. I can read them with: gconftool-2 --get /system/storage/default_options/ntfs-3g/mount_options [locale=en_US.UTF-8,force,dmask=022,fmask=033] And I can set per-device and per-filesystem mount settings with: gnome-mount -p 'FreeAgent Drive' --mount-options no_def_opts,force --mount-point freeagent --write-settings These mount options replace then the gconf-global ntfs-3g mount options, so it gets only mounted with no_def_opts,force in this example. BTW: no_def_opts does not cause chown/chgrp/chmod to fail on the volume, but it indeed causes that that the "allow_others" default setting is reset: l /media/* ls: cannot access /media/freeagent: Permission denied d????????? ? ? ? ? ? freeagent/ So it indeed causes that no information from the mounted volume is visible to other users. These per-device/per-volume settings can be retrived with --display-settings and reased with --erase-settings. These per-volume values are saved in a per-volume-UUID directory+file: ~/.gconf/system/storage/volumes/_org_freedesktop_Hal_devices_volume_uuid_C81C8DAE1C8D9858/%gconf.xml Seems quite useable, but what we'd still like to know is how we or an admin could set system-wide default options for mounts. Maybe it could be done in: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults after a global scheme like the ntfs scheme is created for ntfs-3g: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.schemas/system/storage/default_options/ntfs/%gconf.xml To set default mount options like dmask=022,fmask=033 in the GNOME world would a part of the solution for bug 293429. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.