Hello!
today i switching from mandriva 2010.2 x64 to slackware 13.37 x86 ( 32 bit) on my desktop.
one of problem - i found, external usb hdd, who i mount from kde, shows strange symbols in russian filenames and catalogs. on mandriva all be ok.
i look at mount command and see:
mount
/dev/sdb1 on /media/WD2Tb type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/PHILIPS type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=mixed,flush)

as i see, for usb vfat flash automatically is assigned utf8, but for external hdd ( sdb1 ) - not. i think, problem is there.
look around for problem solving, but cannot find - where and who i must edit for give a default iocharset of utf8 for all usb mountings device ?
thanks...

Create a permanent mount point for your WD2Tb device:


Add this line to your /etc/fstab file; use your editor of choice enter this line:

Try to reattach this device, or issue command:

check if it worked.

Hope that helps.

thanks, but that's not nice solution, even if it works. i need a nice, native, default for all usb mount media, solution...
again - in mandriva that works from box. as so, i think, it be possible in slackware too. sadly, it is not configured well in distro, as so i try to config that yourself...

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs...neral/hal.html
until that, i discovered, a HAL is in that process. currently i see, i can write in 20-storage-methods.fdi, a "allowed option" of utf8, but not discovered what i can do given_options utf8 ....

Have you set your locale in /etc/profile.d/lang.* scripts? That should do it.

ok, thank you very much! now worked. mounting is the same, without "utf8" in mount output, but russian chars show correctly now on external hdd.
strange, as slackware now on default use en_US charset / codepage. on install stage i answer yes on question "do you want to use utf-8 in text console?" and be a sure, a my system default locale is utf8...
thank you again!