Mounting of FAT16 as msdos or vfat

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 17:13 -0500, George Ganoe wrote:
> I recently installed Fedora Core III on my Pentium IV computer system
> to replace the Fedora Core I installation that had been there for
> quite some time.  At first I was pleasantly surprised to note that
> my compact flash disks were mounting automatically for me.  However,
> I have stumbled across a problem.  The HAL mounter is mounting my
> msdos file system compact flash disks as vfat.  I would like those
> disks to be mounted as msdos file system so that I can insure that
> no long file names get put on the disk.
> 
> I have looked through the web site for some tool or instructions on
> how to manage this, but the information alludes me.  Ideally, I
> would like to get a dialog box whenever a compact flash with a
> FAT16 partition on it is plugged into the reader, that would query
> me as to whether to mount the partition as msdos or vfat.  Any
> information that could help me get there is very much appreciated.
> I'm not sure if it is possible to just create a userpolicy
> directory device information file that would solve my problem,
> so a good starting place would be to get an answer for that.
> 
> Assuming that is all that's needed, some pointers to documentation
> for implementing what I need are appreciated.  Unfortunately, I'm
> not very familiar with XML, and it seems that the configuration
> files are written in that, so pointers to tools to work with the
> XML are also appreciated.
> 

This has come up a few times before, here's a link

 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2005-March/002261.html

Cheers,
David


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