Do you have ntfs-3g installed? On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. < drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2009 07:37:50 flashkot wrote: > > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez <angvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > > > > > > org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, > > > > > > result) > > > > > > Did you tried [0] ? > > > > > > [0] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Auto-mounting_fails > > > > This also may help: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Mounting_fails > > > > I once has a problem with automount and this tip helped. > > > > WBR, > > flashkot > > Man that is frustrating. Still unable to mount the NTFS partitions on the > removable disk. > > The wiki helped with the ext3 partitions, but I still do not understand why > man hal was wrong on suggesting the following (3) scenarios: > > <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> > > Should give members of the wheel group full access to all mounts, but it > did > not? > > <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> > <match group="users"> > <return result="yes"/> > </match> > </match> > > Should give group "users" (the default group GID 100) the ability to mount > removable devices but it did not? > > <match user="david"> > <return result="yes"/> > </match> > > Should give "me" full access to mounting/unmounting, but it did not? > > The question then becomes why did the following work for ext3: > > <match user="david"> > <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*"> > <return result="yes"/> > </match> > <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options"> > <return result="yes" /> > </match> > <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options"> > <return result="yes" /> > </match> > </match> > > Why in the world did this <match user="david"> work when the one > just above > didn't? One of my goals in life is to avoid looking in /etc/hal > and /etc/dbus-1 ... I'm failing miserably ;-) > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com >