hal mounting ntfs partition with ntfs-3g

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:44:53 -0400, Meat Plow wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:55:15 +0000, heavytull wrote:
>
>> does anyone knows how to instruct hal to mount ntfs partitions using
>> ntfs-3g driver?
>
> This applies to Gentoo but the mounting strategy should be the same so
> scroll down to usage.
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g
>
> I assume you have ntfs-3g fuse module installed
I'm using the latest ntfs-3g driver, it doesn't depend anymore on the FUSE
userspace library package.
only the kernel module ntfs is needed.

there is no ntfs-3g module loaded.


> and it's loaded at boot.
> Would be nice to know what flavor of linux you use and the kernel build
> numbers.
>
i'm using Slackware 12.0, with kernel 2.6.21.5

> I'm using a 500 gig eSATA WDC MyBook Home version external drive
> formatted NTFS with no problems in Kubuntu 7.10.