[desktop-discuss] Automount - Can be be configured for other file systems ?

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 04:37 -0700, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Having a lot of my data on ext3 (removable drives), I can mount and unmount the file systems.
> So far so good. Until now, I have added a lot of scripts that I call for mounting/unmounting those partitions. Cumbersome. 
> When I add a removable drive with a 'known' file system, the automounter chips in. Not so with ext3, NTFS. 
> Is there a chance to add ext2fs, ntfs to the 'known' file systems, to be mounted automatically ?
> 
> No, vfstab is no good solution. I run a hub inbetween, and the controller (cN) moves with the plug on the hub.
> I'd very much wish for an applet that allows to edit the known file systems; with the auto-mounter mounting any known system for me. Inclusive a read-only/write choice.

This is probably more a question for Tamarack [1], so cc:ing
tamarack-discuss.

[1] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/