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

[Artem Kachitchkine]

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 ?

Adding fstyp modules for these filesystems should make them 'known' to 
HAL-based volume managers.

$ ls /usr/lib/fs/*/fstyp.so.1
/usr/lib/fs/hsfs/fstyp.so.1  /usr/lib/fs/ufs/fstyp.so.1
/usr/lib/fs/pcfs/fstyp.so.1  /usr/lib/fs/zfs/fstyp.so.1
/usr/lib/fs/udfs/fstyp.so.1

Module API is in /usr/include/libfstyp_module.h

Example 
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/fs.d/zfs/fstyp/fstyp.c

-Artem