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fender0107401
April 16th, 2009, 15:21
I want use a "removable disk" with freebsd for backup, I have two computer one run freebsd without gnome and one with gnome.

Use the one without gnome, I can use the mount_ntfs command to mount the "removable disk" as use flash disk. :e

But, if I plug the "removable disk" to the one with gnome, "hald" will mount the "mobile hard disk" to /media directory. :(

If I kill "hald" everything is ok, so I want know how to use gnome without hald?

I want use "gdm_enable="YES" instead of the following lines:

dbus_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"

but it doesn't work. :(

fender0107401
April 16th, 2009, 15:33
Maybe I can change the file system format to solve this problem?

Why hald will not mount my flash disk that use "fat" format, can I change the removable disk to some other format to prevent hald mount it?

SirDice
April 16th, 2009, 15:42
Don't disable hald other parts of GNOME and Xorg depend on it. To prevent hald from probing a device:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q2

If you use that disk on fbsd systems only why not format it with UFS?