Bug 720225

Summary: removable drives getting mounted as ntfs, not as ntfs-3g as internal partitions
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Oliver Schmidt <oliver.schmidt+suse>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jengelh
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Description Oliver Schmidt 2011-09-24 20:04:35 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0

If you mount removable, ntfs-formatted drives like usb-sticks/harddisks via kde (using udisk??), they're getting mounted using the old ntfs-driver so reading and writing is very slow compared to the cli-way mounting it with ´mount´ and giving it the filesystem-type ntfs-3g.
My internal windows partitions are getting mounted as ntfs-3g during boot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Connect a ntfs-formatted usb-device to your pc
2.Mount it using kde (e.g. using dolphin)
3.copy many big files (to create a high cpu-usage) and look in top which process takes much cpu-power
Actual Results:  
top says, /sbin/mount.ntfs is used (symlink to /etc/alternatives/mount.ntfs)

Expected Results:  
/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g should be used because it's faster

I'm using the latest Tumbleweed version (2011-09-24)
Comment 1 Kun Kun Zhang 2012-03-08 04:49:20 UTC 
Long time no response.So closed.Feel free to reopen it.Thanks.
Comment 2 Jan Engelhardt 2012-03-15 15:49:24 UTC 
(Revert wrong use of NORESPONSE.)

In openSUSE 12.1 this is “solved”; mount.ntfs is now an "update-alternatives"-maintained symlink that will be reset to ntfs-3g once you remove the old ntfsprogs package.