Change Default Mount Option for Automount in Slackware64 14.1

ack_iix · 03-18-2014, 04:28 AM

Just as the thread title, is there any way of changing the default mount options for external storage device? (like USB pen-drive or portable hard drive)

For example, I have a NTFS-formatted external hard drive - when I plugged it Slackware64 automatically mounts it using NTFS-3G, how do I pass or change the default mount options for the mounting process like adding uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=133,dmask=022 to NTFS-3G?

Or even change the default mount filesystem? Like change ntfs-3g to ufsd (Paragon NTFS driver) and pass the appropriate mount options every time the device automount.

Thanks for your reply.

willysr · 03-18-2014, 05:41 AM

have a look on your /etc/fstab

ack_iix · 03-18-2014, 07:37 AM

I'm asking about how to pass options in Slackware64 14.1 auto-mounting feature, I kind a lost about how to 'configure' or tune the auto-mount filesystem options not mounting manually using entry in /etc/fstab.

For example, I have these entry in /etc/fstab:

Code:

# WD Passport 2TB - /dev/sdb1
UUID="A63A0C9C3A0C6C1D"  /mnt/wd1  ufsd  uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=133,dmask=022,iocharset=utf8,nohidden  0  0

Do you know how to append all of those mount options to the auto-mount daemon / process (udisks, udisks2, or whatever that is) also change the default auto-mount behavior to use ufsd instead of ntfs-3g, so I don't have to mount it manually every time I start my laptop without first plugging in my portable hard drive.

Thanks

willysr · 03-18-2014, 10:24 AM

How do expect the system to mount something without plugging in your portable hard drive? What should it mount?

enorbet · 03-18-2014, 12:41 PM

If you add it to /etc/fstab it will control how and where automount mounts it. If you boot up w/o the external drive connected automount/fstab will just give a short error that it can't mount an unknown filesystem. When you do connect it, Bob's ur Uncle.

ack_iix · 03-18-2014, 04:23 PM

@willysr, do you really understands what I'm asking here? If you mount a file system in Linux, sometimes you have to pass appropriate mount paramaters to the -o option, for example:

Code:

mount -t ufsd -o uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=133,dmask=022,iocharset=utf8,nohidden /dev/sdb1 /mnt/wd1

My question is how do you enable automount to use all those params in '-o', because automount Slackware64 (KDE 4.12.3) seems to always use a default mount options.

@enorbet, haven't really tried your solution though because I always comment my fstab entry everytime I tinker with this issue. Will give it a try though.

Just incase you are all wondering, people from some other distro have asked this question as well:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=988150
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/que...mount-options/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/30762...y-not-possible

ack_iix · 03-18-2014, 04:36 PM

Quick update:

I have these entries in /etc/fstab for mounting manually:

Code:

# WD Passport 2TB - /dev/sdb2
UUID="adbdf3df-8763-48fc-9a5c-a50e6bb30b6c" /mnt/wd2  ext4  defaults,noatime          1  3

# WD Passport 2TB - /dev/sdb1
UUID="A63A0C9C3A0C6C1D"  /mnt/wd1  ufsd  uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=133,dmask=022,iocharset=utf8,nohidden  0  0

But whan I plug my portable hard drive, the automount in KDE 4.12.3 seems to ignore these entries completely. Here's what I got from KDE automount:

Code:

/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/dwi/WD type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb2 on /run/media/dwi/Slack type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)

enorbet · 03-18-2014, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ack_iix

@enorbet, haven't really tried your solution though because I always comment my fstab entry everytime I tinker with this issue. Will give it a try though.

Here's an example

Code:

 
## Note - truncated /etc/fstab ##
## This is just for 2 specific 16G Thumbdrives ##
UUID=5424-CC68 /media/USB-1  auto     defaults,user                           0  0
UUID=1002-FB5E /media/USB-2  auto     defaults,user                           0  0

I've tried udisks2 rules and they don't hold up over upgrades so I use the above, which does.