automount ntfs volumes (was ntfs volume and locale= option)

[Danny Kukawka]

On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:14:38 +0200
[...]
> > I guess you are right, since it need the desktops/tools to get
> > adopted. Until then you need another fdi-file which overwrites the
> > fs-type and set the allowed mount options for ntfs-3g. While this is
> > wrong in general it should be very generic (it should run with the
> > most of the latest HAL releases).
>
> That's not a huge problem.   For the time being, we can keep doing what
> we've already been having to do, and at some point once all the desktop
> environments have made the switch, ntfs-3g can ship its own fdi file
> that "just works."
>
> Once the commit has been made on your end, please be sure to post a
> note here, and I'll take responsibility for making sure notification
> gets to the kde and xfce folks.  Someone else will have to handle the
> gnome folks - I don't have any contacts with that project.

I've commited the changes to the spec and adopted tools/hal-storage-mount.c to 
handle the new keys. You can checkout the latest spec here:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal-spec-git/hal-spec.html#device-properties-bluetooth_acl

For some more information see the comments of the commits:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-commit/2008-October/004686.html


I attach an example fdi file for ntfs-3g with some mount options. 

Please test and report problems.

Danny

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