[gentoo-user] Re: gnome-volume-manager

[Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:38, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> [Attached scsi disk blah...]
> Feb  9 14:48:31 orpheus FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for
> FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
> Feb  9 14:48:31 orpheus Unable to load NLS charset utf8
> Feb  9 14:48:31 orpheus FAT: IO charset utf8 not found
>
> But when I mount the drive manually:
> sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/tmp
> or
> sudo mount -o codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/tmp/
>
> it mounts fine, gnome-volume-manager detects that I've mounted it and
> opens a window in the "root" folder of the drive (/mnt/tmp).
>
> So why doesn't it do it automatically?  I tried building the module
> nls_utf8.  When I load the module and plug in the
> drive, /var/log/messages now shows:
>
> Feb  7 22:07:18 orpheus FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for
> FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
>
> but the drive still mounts...
>
> This doesn't seem to be the right way to go, as I can mount the drive
> _without_ nls_utf8, but gnome-volume-manager can't...
I *think* gvm uses fstab to override defaults.
You can try to add an entry for your usb device to /etc/fstab
 
/dev/sdd1	/gvm/mountpoint	vfat	noauto,user,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1	0 
0
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list