I have a problem with mounting external drives that use ntfs-3g. When I plug in
my external drive it shows up in thunar but it won't mount with the error that
ntfs file system is not recognized (I removed the ntfs module since I need rw
support). on the other hand if I use pmount /dev/sdb1 it mounts just fine and
then thunar can access that drive (after it was mounted).
As far as I have been able to figure out, thunar uses hal for mounting the
drive, thus it is hal that doesn't know how to use ntfs-3g.
I changed the
file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi
before to handle this but it gets annoying since it is overwritten with hal
updates. Is there a way to get hal (or thunar) to use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs
when it is installed?
I don't know if it is related, but unmounting also used to give a lot of
trouble with this drive when it was working with an error saying that an
unknown error occurred, although the drive was unmounted correctly.