how to get utf8 support for auto mount by hal(udev)?

notsay · 08-20-2007, 01:09 PM

My Slackware linux can auto mount or unmount USB-disk by udev, but when USB-disk mounted by udev, there is a bad interface, all chinese word display "???", I think should mount -o iocharset=zh_CN.utf8 , but auto mount by udev , I dont' know how to edit mount rules.

happyslacker · 08-21-2007, 12:21 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...97#post2865897

iiv · 09-11-2007, 10:04 AM

Don't understand that solution. Is there another way? To cause HAL mount vfat with exact flags, such as iocharset=utf-8.
Why should i edit my fstab? I don't want to. Wanna mount any vfat filesystem with correct options. Example:
today i connect my flashdrive, ok, an entry for it /dev/sda1 in fstab is suitable for me
tomorrow i connect flashdrive with reiserfs, which doesn't understand iocharset option
day after tomorrow i connect two flashdrives, so i should create two entries in my fstab and so on.
There should be away to make HAL mount the filesystem with the option. And not using any third-party like http://slackwareart.blogspot.com/200...slackware.html when a program EDITS(imagine that) my fstab every time i insert my flashdrive into usb port. fstab is something static, not dynamic

nemetho · 03-18-2008, 05:50 AM

I hope this will help:

#settings for specific devices
gnome-mount --display-settings --device /dev/sda1
gnome-mount --write-settings --fstype vfat --mount-options utf8 --device /dev/sda1
gnome-mount --erase-settings --device /dev/sda1

#general options for fstypes
#get options
gconftool -g /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options
#set options
gconftool -s /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options --list-type=string -t list [shortname=lower,uid=,flush,utf8]

eumetaxas · 03-22-2008, 05:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nemetho

I hope this will help:
gconftool -g /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options
#set options
gconftool -s /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options --list-type=string -t list [shortname=lower,uid=,flush,utf8]

THANK YOU!
I've been trying for days to fix this and is so simple!(i am on debian testing now.) in ubuntu it's set by default.
THANK YOU AGAIN!

iiv · 03-22-2008, 03:59 PM

Code:

# which gconf
which: no gconf in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/root/scripts)

Actually neither gconf, nor gnome-mount is available on standard Slackware distribution.

Do you compile a custom kernel? I, myself solved it by setting the default charset to utf-8

Code:

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