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). -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]