How to teach KDE's USB automounter to deal with USB NTFS drive?

[the_dude]

I've got an external USB hard disk, partitioned with NTFS. I'm of course running Feisty, and I've successfully installed NTFS-3G and supporting software using Adept (including fuse, etc.)

I can manually mount my volume from the command line with no problem using "sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/<device name> <mount point>" and use the drive.

However, I would like KDE's media daemon/automounter to mount this volume when I plug it in.

I have found the UUID of the external drive using vol_id, and added an entry in /etc/fstab like this:

UUID=A270A5AA70A5861F /media/extusbdrive ntfs-3g      defaults,umask=007,gid=46,force,noauto  0    0

where /media/extusbdrive is a directory I created.

However, this does not seem to make any difference to the KDE automounter, and plugging in the drive doesn't result in it getting mounted. Where are the rules/database for KDE's mounting daemon stored? How can I tell it how to handle this device?

Thank you.

[SheeEttin]

Re: How to teach KDE's USB automounter to deal with USB NTFS drive?

Next time you mount it, open up Konqueror and go to media:/. Find the drive, right-click it, go to "Mounting", and select "Mount automatically".

[the_dude]

Re: How to teach KDE's USB automounter to deal with USB NTFS drive?

Well, I found the System Settings -> Disk & Filesystems panel, but even after I add the mount point, etc. to the entry for my external drive, I find I have to manually "Enable" and "Disable" it to get it mounted. The dialog box that pops up when I plug in the drive still doesn't know how to mount the drive.

If I mount it using the Disks & Filesystems panel and then try to unmount the volume by right-clicking the mount point in Konqueror, I get an error from HAL that the device is not in the .hal-mtab file. So I suppose this question is more about how to tell HAL what to do with the volume (and is there some kind of GUI to configure the HAL behavior/options)?

Help would still be appreciated.

Addendum: I read SheeEttin's post, and this did not work for me. I even tried removing the entries in the Disks & Filesystems panel, and commenting out the entry in /etc/fstab (I didn't reboot after the /etc/fstab entry change, though) with no change in auto-mounting behavior.

[cajunlibra]

Re: How to teach KDE's USB automounter to deal with USB NTFS drive?

Next time you mount it, open up Konqueror and go to media:/. Find the drive, right-click it, go to "Mounting", and select "Mount automatically".

I don't have the option for "Mounting" when I right-click my mounted USB drive in the media:/ folder. I started Konqueror with root permissions.