case sensitive in mounted USB disk

[Yuandan Zhang]

>
> I researched this awhile ago and found out precisely how to change the 
> defaults for auto mounted filesystems in FC3 which applies to FC4 too. 
> The example below will make sure that all FAT32,FAT16,FAT12 
> auto-mounted filesystems by hald display mixed case.  It seems that 
> hald is responsible for all mounting options and is VERY 
> configurable.  I wish someone would post a how-to for tweaking 
> everything hald can do. Whoever integrated hald into Fedora should get 
> an award!
>
> If you want to limit the mixed case to filesystems under 2 gigs that 
> can be done too!  It just takes another match key in the right place(I 
> dont remember the exact thing to put there but if you want this 
> limited to small filesystems I should be able it up somewhere.
>
> Btw... I posted something similar to this for fedorasolved.com about 
> FC3 and the sonypsp.  On that site I show how to create another .fdi 
> file to always mount the sony psp as /media/sonypsp... 
> /media/sonypsp1... /media/sonypsp2... etc.  Did I mention that hald 
> rocks?    Now we just need a gui to configure this stuff :).
>
> Add the following file to /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/ to get FAT 
> filesystems to display mixed case when FC3 automounts them.
>
> ---- file name fatmixedcase.fdi ----
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
>       <match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">
>         <match key="volume.fsversion" string="FAT12">
>           <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8" 
> type="bool">false</merge>
>           <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=mixed" 
> type="bool">true</merge>
>         </match>
>         <match key="volume.fsversion" string="FAT16">
>           <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8" 
> type="bool">false</merge>
>           <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=mixed" 
> type="bool">true</merge>
>         </match>
>         <match key="volume.fsversion" string="FAT32">
>           <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8" 
> type="bool">false</merge>
>           <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=mixed" 
> type="bool">true</merge>
>         </match>
>       </match>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
> ---- end of file fatmixedcase.fdi ----

Adam,
Thanks alot. This is a great solution. I got your another post too.
http://fedorasolved.com/viewtopic.php?t=37&highlight=sonypsp


cheers,

Yuandan