Bug 373061

Summary: HAL does not automount an external USB Harddrive (NTFS) with ntfs-3g
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli>
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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HAL policy to let ntfs-3g automount external harddisk again. none

Description Fabio Comolli 2007-11-09 16:07:56 UTC 
Description of problem: HAL does not automount an external USB Harddrive (NTFS)
with ntfs-3g

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.10-1.fc8

How reproducible: always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. plug the USB HD

Actual results: The konqueror dialog opens up with a message: "TODO: have to
rethink extra options"

Expected results: The konqueror windows with files and folders...

Additional info: it seems to be a known bug. For example see:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=296849
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39445

The proposed workaround, to create a file called 

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-ntfs-policy.fdi

works. After restarting HAL the old (F7) behaviour is back.
Comment 1 Fabio Comolli 2007-11-09 16:07:56 UTC 
Created attachment 252961 [details]
HAL policy to let ntfs-3g automount external harddisk again.
Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2007-11-27 16:33:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 378041 ***