Hello, everyone

I have been nagged by a problem for a long time. I've asked help from many people

but still cannot solve my problem. I hope someone can help me here.

My problem is how to mount removable disk with UTF-8 encoding? Because I'm a

Chinese user, there are many Chinese file names in my removable disk. In Mandriva

2008 Spring, I set the system to UTF-8 encoding, the Chinese file names cannot be

displayed in mounted removable disk. As I know, the Chinese characters are in

UTF-8 encoding when they are in removable disk (the removable disk filesystem is

NTFS formatted by Windows Vista).

In previous Mandriva releases, the system use /etc/fstab to mount removable disk.

So, I can solve the problem with modifying /etc/fstab.

However, In 2008 Spring, it uses HAL to mount removable disks. I have no idea how

to set it use UTF-8 to mount removable disks. By the way, the Windows partitions

in internal hard disk is mounted correctly automatically.


Looking forward for your reply.

Sorry for my poor English.

Thanks!


Jeff

Hi, I can't help with the language characters, I can't check. BUT,

I noticed that /ect/mtab lists my usb flash (thumb) drive with utf8 attributes, so I thought it may be of assistance.

This fstab line may be written...

/dev/sdc1 /media/GLENNSFLASH vfat defaults,user,nosuid,noauto 0 0

You may add the fstab line to the /etc/fstab file (as root)

the /etc/mtab file may not be edited, it is generated to reflect the mounted file systems, current.

But is where you may find these details too.

If your flash drive has not been set before you may have to create a directory where the pointer points to,

eg, /media/GLENNSFLASH, and make it write-able for user, not just root.

a reboot may be required, and keep the usb drive plugged in during the reboot.

My drive auto mounts when plugged in during a session, now.

I would also suggest format fat32. for crossing between m$win and linux systems.

Cheers, Glenn.

Hi, once the drive is mounted...(to mount manually type mount /media/FLASH, as root)

You can configure it further by using the "configure your computer" icon in tools menu.

Go to local disks, here once you've made changes the entry will be updated in fstab.

BTW, my flash drive name has been changed, it was GLENNSFLASH, now it is just FLASH. Uppercase to conform with windows naming conventions.

For reference, this is my mobile phone setting...

fstab entry:
#Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
UUID=19B0-35D4 /media/nokia vfat fat=16,defaults,user,nosuid,noauto 0 0

mtab entry:
/dev/sdd1 /media/NOKIA vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower 0 0

Regards, Glenn

After checking my system, because of the name changes I mentioned above...

i found these entries,

current-just modified....
fstab:
# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
UUID=4851-0C86 /media/FLASH vfat umask=0,user,noatime,flush 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
UUID=19B0-35D4 /media/NOKIA vfat umask=0,user,noatime,flush 0 0

mtab:
/dev/sdd1 /media/NOKIA vfat rw,check=relaxed 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/FLASH vfat rw,check=relaxed 0 0

Thanks Glenn.

I will try to motify /etc/mtab.

Thanks.

Hi, in my last post... the settings automount but unreadable to me as user.

sorry abut that.

Also, fstab is editable, mtab will have no effect.

Also, I think udev takes care of the device once it has been detected.

I say this because after a few days, the lines dissapear from fstab, but the drives still automount.

Thanks for your warmheart.

I intalled GNOME Desktop, it can mount my removable disk correctly. So, I guess there is someting wrong with KDE. IS there any way to set a parameter to the application which KDE uses to mount disks?

No. not really. digikam for multimedia.

sorry, what does this mean? Anyting wrong with digikam?

Only because the author does not mention (or my interpretation) the file types, and my inexperience with digikam, seems to be sound and video app.

regards, Glenn

File types include file folder, mp3, avi and txt. IF you need more information. please let me know.

This file ...

/etc/sysconfig/i18n

has this info...

LC_TELEPHONE=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_GB:en
LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_AU.UTF-8
SYSFONT=lat1-16
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8

But I'm not sure what package changes it...

locale(?) and locale-en(?)

Thanks for your help. Thank you very much.

Forget it. I have switched to OpenSuse 11.0, everything works well.