I hooked up my Nokia N900 to an external hard drive which is formatted with ntfs.
The new power kernel automatically mounts drives when they're connected with hostmode, but it completely ignores the udev rules I've set and my modified fstab (both of which tell it to use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs).
A simple hack to get it to work is to umount it and then manually mount it again ('cause if I do it manually, then it does comply with udev/fstab), but it's an ugly way of fixing such a problem and I don't want to risk any data corruption.
How do I modify this behaviour of the kernel (51r1)?
I honestly don't remember, but I might have "fixed" it by simply replacing the kernel module with ntfs-3g.
It was just too unstable; the driver would randomly shut down from time to time and two months ago it completely screwed up the filesystem on the hard drive, causing me to lose all data on it (which wasn't that big of a deal, but still cause for worry).
Just format it with ext3 and spare yourself the headaches.
I did and it's been smooth sailing ever since.
Edit: Your bump made me realise I never finished my N900-server tutorial (with Bash as a web cgi).
I'll try to finish it this week.
Thanks!
