gnome-volume-manager vs. automount w/ usb memory stick

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 08:49 -0500, Dr. Steve wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'll ask anyway. Prior
> to installing gnome-volume-manager, I had an entry in /etc/auto.mnt that
> would mount device sda1, either my camera or my usb memory stick as
> /mnt/camera. Although I had to be root to write to the memory stick, the
> complete file name would always be displayed when listing the directory.
> With gnome-volume-manager deployed, the memory stick mounts as usbdisk
> (haven't looked to see which directory it's in) and is writable by an
> ordinary user, but all I see is a truncated 8.3 msdos-style file name.
> I'd really like to see the complete file name. Is there a simple way to
> do this?

What does the entry in /etc/fstab look like and what does 'rpm -q hal'
say? Earlier releases of hal used msdos as the fstype but the latest
release should always choose vfat in favor of msdos. 

Please test with the latest release and see if that makes it any better.

Thanks,
David