Thunar presumes all USB sticks are VFAT

[samuel]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Todd and Margo Chester
<ToddAndMargo at verizon.net> wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On ven, 2008-08-15 at 23:30 -0700, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>>> It seams that Thunar presumes all USB sticks are VFAT.
>>
>> I disagree. I can perfectly mount ext3 keys here. Could you send the
>> (expurged) output of lshal when the key is plugged in?
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> Figured it out.  Thunar is looking for a hint as to what fs
> the stick is using in /etc/fstab.  So I changed the third
> parameter on the /dev/sdc1 line from "vfat" to "auto" and
> now Thunar mounts the ext3 sticks correctly.  Mind you,
> not it the directory I want, but it usually does not
> cause much of a problem.  (I have a different stick
> I like to use in "/mnt/TripStick", but ...)
>
> fstab before:
> /dev/sdc1        /mnt/TripStick      vfat
> pamconsole,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,rw,users
> 0 0
>
> after:
> /dev/sdc1        /mnt/TripStick      auto
> pamconsole,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,rw,users
> 0 0
>

you simply should not have any entries in your fstab for your
usbsticks... let hal en exo-mount handle it


> -T
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