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ntfs-3g package

[gutsy] Using ntfs-3g by default mising locale option

Bug #133039 reported by Niko Cavallini
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Nominated for Gutsy by Niko Cavallini

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ntfs-3g

Hi, on a clean gutsy tribe 4, my system has a ntfs partition configured. Inicialy ubuntu uses ntfs read only driver and the acording mount options are selected in fstab.

Upon web update i noticed ntfs-3g is now used instead (Great!!!), but the mount options contain a "nls=utf8" used for the old driver i should be changed to "locale=CURRENTLOCALE" so the regional simbols are interpreted. also updates from feisty shud care for this.

Mail me for any feedback and or testing.

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Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka) wrote :

ntfs-3g doesn't need either the nls or the locale mount option if the language specific locale environment is already correctly setup by the distribution before mounting the volumes (Ubuntu 7.10 already should do this way). More info is at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale

In short, if the distribution is correctly setup and configured then there isn't need for extra, language specific mount option.

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Niko Cavallini (niko-cava) wrote :

Hi I seem to have misunderstood the first time around reading the web page, apologies.

Yet I tested the without the locale option and it fails to read the characters after boot. Remounting the partition corrects the error. So as stated in bug 132357 i seems the language specific locale environment is not set up before mounting the partition.

Thanks for your time.

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