This is probably a dumb question, but I've looked around and I can't find anything on this. I'm using ntfs-3g now, from rpmforge, to access my M$ Window$ disks for offline backup and other such menial tasks, and I noticed that the ntfs file systems are not mounted automatically, but I have to mount them manually as ntfs-3g devices. I _thought_ when I installed the whole dkms-fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g packages from rpmforge that they would be more integrated into the system (i.e., direct automount). Is that just my erroneous expectation, or did I miss something in the installation process? Thanks. mhr PS: Still no resolution on the Canon problem. Canon suggested I use a card reader (which I mentioned having tried and failed in my question to them). LOVE that tech support for Linux....
On Sat, 23 May 2009, MHR wrote:> This is probably a dumb question, but I've looked around and I can't > find anything on this. > > I'm using ntfs-3g now, from rpmforge, to access my M$ Window$ disks > for offline backup and other such menial tasks, and I noticed that the > ntfs file systems are not mounted automatically, but I have to mount > them manually as ntfs-3g devices. > > I _thought_ when I installed the whole dkms-fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g > packages from rpmforge that they would be more integrated into the > system (i.e., direct automount). Is that just my erroneous > expectation, or did I miss something in the installation process?Works fine for me in Gnome. Are you using the latest fuse-ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-2.el5.rf package ? In Gnome I added the Disk Mounter applet to my panel so it is easy to unmount before you retract the disk (ntfs is prone to those problems). -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:> This is probably a dumb question, but I've looked around and I can't > find anything on this. > > I'm using ntfs-3g now, from rpmforge, to access my M$ Window$ disks > for offline backup and other such menial tasks, and I noticed that the > ntfs file systems are not mounted automatically, but I have to mount > them manually as ntfs-3g devices. > > I _thought_ when I installed the whole dkms-fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g > packages from rpmforge that they would be more integrated into the > system (i.e., direct automount). ?Is that just my erroneous > expectation, or did I miss something in the installation process?<snip> you forgot to add something like the below, to your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 modify what's above, so it works for you. This works fine. I can read/write to/from my NTFS partition and ext3 partition. The only possible issue I saw was that after the upgrade to 5.3, it didn't work. Possibly I needed to wait longer for it to kick in, or reboot again. Akemi I think commented on that thread. OT: About the Canon support for Linux, some years ago, I received a reply from Lexmark Tech Support that they wouldn't release an updated Linux driver for our printer. Probably won't be buying any Lexmark printers after that.