[SOLVED] ntfs write with kde 4.6 and udev?

qlands · 12-22-2011, 10:59 AM

Hi,

I have Slackware 13.37 with Alien's KDE 4.6.5 packages. Before upgrading KDE an auto-mounted NTFS was done read/write but after upgrading the auto-mount is read only. It might be becuase UDEV.

With mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /mnt/hd it mounts the drive as readonly but mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/hd mounts it read-write

I followed this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...h-udev-541985/ by adding a policy in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-ntfs-3g-policy.fdi with:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">exec</append>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

But it still auto-mounts the NTFS in read only.

Any idea what else I need to change/add so it auto-mounts the drive as read/write?

Thanks,
Carlos.

ponce · 12-22-2011, 11:24 AM

the policy you have done works with hal, but kde >= 4.6 as built by alienbob, as you have said, uses udev.

maybe the easiest way to fix it is to do a symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs pointing at /bin/ntfs-3g, as per Robby's suggestion.

qlands · 12-22-2011, 12:21 PM

Yep. Thant fixed the problem

Thanks.