[linux-audio-user] Which Windows XP File System is Readable by Linux?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Dec 5 11:30:19 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:01 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:35:17AM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > So put this in /etc/init.d/local:
> > 
> > /bin/umount /my/ntfs/mount/path
> 
> Oops, more explicitly for those who haven't messed with init.d
> scripts...
> 
> more specifically, you would put the above line EITHER
> in the "stop" function within /etc/inid.d/local, or (PREFERRED)
> put it wherever your distribution's existing init.d/local looks
> for stuff to run.  In my case, I run gentoo, and init.d/local
> looks for scripts at /etc/conf.d/local.start (for startup)
> and /etc/conf.d/local.stop (for shutdown).
> So I'd put the above line in /etc/conf.d/local.stop.
> 

I was infuriated to find that the latest version of Ubuntu does not
AUTOMATICALLY mount a USB drive as soon as it's plugged it.  It does
appear on the Gnome desktop, with a nice descriptive icon, but as soon
as the user clicks it they get PERMISSION DENIED.

Christ, it's 2005, do they still expect us to fuck with config files?

Lee




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