[CentOS] ntfs-3g question

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 23 May 2009, MHR wrote:

> This is probably a dumb question, but I've looked around and I can't
> find anything on this.
>
> I'm using ntfs-3g now, from rpmforge, to access my M$ Window$ disks
> for offline backup and other such menial tasks, and I noticed that the
> ntfs file systems are not mounted automatically, but I have to mount
> them manually as ntfs-3g devices.
>
> I _thought_ when I installed the whole dkms-fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g
> packages from rpmforge that they would be more integrated into the
> system (i.e., direct automount).  Is that just my erroneous
> expectation, or did I miss something in the installation process?

Works fine for me in Gnome. Are you using the latest 
fuse-ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-2.el5.rf package ?

In Gnome I added the Disk Mounter applet to my panel so it is easy to 
unmount before you retract the disk (ntfs is prone to those problems).

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