Bug 374197

Summary:	sys-fs/ntfs3g should optionally (symlink USE flag) add /sbin/mount.ntfs link to /bin/ntfs-3g
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Claudio Roberto França Pereira <spideybr>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	ssuominen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Claudio Roberto França Pereira 2011-07-06 02:04:47 UTC

Currently, the ntfs-3g ebuild installs ntfs-3g and add mount.ntfs-3g symlink so that "mount -t ntfs-3g" works correctly. But mount autodetect tries to mount NTFS partitions as "-t ntfs".
I think that the ntfs-3g package should also add the /sbin/mount.ntfs symlink, maybe toggled by the symlink USE flag or something. I don't wanna mess with the sbin directory myself, although this is a pretty safe change, it all starts with little things before getting really messy.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Claudio Roberto França Pereira 2011-07-06 14:42:01 UTC

Thinking over the problem, I think that creating another USE flag is inappropriate. Using the ntfsprogs USE flag to toggle this behavior should be okay. What do you think?

Comment 2 Claudio Roberto França Pereira 2011-07-06 14:56:47 UTC

I've found out about the udev rules file, and it's enough to make KDE automount devices correctly, but from the terminal, it's not yet automatic. Would making the mount.ntfs symlink break anything?

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-07-08 21:21:49 UTC

this will be fixed automatically once ntfs3g and ntfsprogs are merged.  not sure we want to bother with symlinks in the meantime.

Comment 4 Claudio Roberto França Pereira 2011-07-08 21:53:11 UTC

Great news. ntfsprogs will merge ntfs3g's internal ntfsprogs then? Alright, the bugs can be changed to WONTFIX then. I can only change it to resolved.

Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-11 19:09:10 UTC

Symlink present in ntfs3g-2012.1.15-r1. Closing.