How to specify options for automount ?

[Thilo Glatzel]

Yue Feng wrote:

> Hi,
> I resolved this problem by:
>
> add a file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/95-user-storage-policy.fdi , with 
> content (between and exclude =====):
> =====
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.utf8" type="bool">true</merge>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
> =====
>
> and then restart the haldaemon service.
>
> 2005/7/6, Yue Feng <2525275 at gmail.com <mailto:2525275 at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Hi,
>     I resolved this problem by:
>
>     add a file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/95-user-storage-policy.fdi , with
>     content (between and exclude =====):
>     =====
>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
>
>     <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>       <device>
>         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.utf8"
>     type="bool">true</merge>
>       </device>
>     </deviceinfo>
>     =====
>
>     and then restart the haldaemon service.
>
>
>
>     2005/7/6, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com
>     <mailto:sundaram at redhat.com>>:
>
>         Yue Feng wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> every time i plug my mp3 player in, my fc4 will mount it
>> automatically. That's cool, but the default options will not
>         recognize
>> Chinese characters in file names. If i umount it ,and
>         manually mount
>> it with a 'utf8', Chinese can display correctly.
>>
>> so, is it possible for me to add a simply 'utf8' option to
>         the default
>> auto mount options?
>
>         well this should be the default I guess. File a bug report on
>         this in
>         bugzilla.redhat.com <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>.
>         regards
>         Rahul
>
>
>
Hi Yu Feng,

I was already looking for a solution of this problem on this list for a 
while without luck, thanks for the hint! Did you found any good HOWTO 
about configuring hal? I would like to set permissions to an 
automatically mounted firewire HD.

regards

Thilo