Bug 231376 – This tells hald to mount NTFS volumes as ntfs-3g instead of ntfs, so they become writable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Malte Starostik 2008-07-10 07:13:11 UTC]

Currently, hald mounts NTFS file systems readonly using the in-kernel ntfs module.  When installing ntfs3g, the IMHO expected behaviour is to mount them writable instead.  The attached ebuild and fdi do this when hal is in USE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge ntfs3g
2. mount an NTFS volume via hald, e.g. with konqueror
3.

Actual Results:  
Volume is mounted readonly using the kernel's NTFS support

Expected Results:  
Volume should be mounted R/W using ntfs3g

[Comment 1 Malte Starostik 2008-07-10 07:14:09 UTC]

Created attachment 160013 [details]
Ebuild to include the fdi policy file with hal USE flag

[Comment 2 Malte Starostik 2008-07-10 07:14:28 UTC]

Created attachment 160015 [details]
The fdi policy file

[Comment 3 Malte Starostik 2008-07-10 07:21:11 UTC]

Created attachment 160018 [details]
Same, but DEPEND on sys-apps/hal accordingly

Oops, forgot the dependency

[Comment 4 Patrick McLean 2008-07-10 15:46:45 UTC]

Sorry about those dependency emails. New version sys-fs/ntfs3g-2531-r1 commited to CVS with HAL use flag that installs the FDI file.