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Adrian Roman (adyroman5) wrote : Re: [Bug 453605] Re: Make default mount umasks configurable

I've tried the solution suggested above but when I stick the NTFS USB drive
in, it says it can't mount it and point to this bit of documentation:

Unprivileged block device mounts work only if all the below requirements are
met:

   1. ntfs-3g is compiled with integrated FUSE support
   2. the ntfs-3g binary is at least version 1.2506
   3. the ntfs-3g binary is set to setuid-root
   4. the user has access right to the volume
   5. the user has access right to the mount point

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged

But the default ntfs-3g version shipped with Lucid is not compiled with
integrated FUSE support:

user@host:~$ ntfs-3g --version
ntfs-3g 2010.3.6 external FUSE 28
user@host:~$

So maybe that works only for FAT drives? Anybody have a workaround for NTFS
drives in that case? :)

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:15 PM, X-Ander <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have added the following lines to my /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /media/usbd1 auto
> noauto,rw,user,shortname=mixed,dmask=02,fmask=0113,utf8=1,flush 0 2
> /dev/sdc1 /media/usbd2 auto
> noauto,rw,user,shortname=mixed,dmask=02,fmask=0113,utf8=1,flush 0 2
>
> Now two USB flash drives are mounted as I want. I don't need more
> because I have only two USB connectors free at my netbook.
>
> The idea was suggested by http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit-
> disks/Device.html#Device.FilesystemMount<http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit-%0Adisks/Device.html#Device.FilesystemMount>
>
> --
> Make default mount umasks configurable
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453605
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