Removable devices with UTF-8

Question

Hi is there a way how to make HAL mount removable devices with iocharset=utf8 option?
I tried this file:
cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/uf8.pdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset" type="string">utf8</merge>
</match>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset" type="string">utf8</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
But no success.

Answer 1

As a problem may have several solutions, I propose another method to mount removable medias with chosen mount options and at a chosen mount point.
The advantage of that method, I think, is that only one file is used and easily edited, and nothing else has to be modified in the system (no .fdi files are touched).
Here is the batch file which I named mountusb :
#!/bin/bash
# Script mountusb by Bernard Baeyens (berbae) 2009-06-18
# to mount plugged in removable medias, using hal and pmount
# without knowing the device name
# without modifying the /etc/fstab file
# without needing to create a fixed directory under /media
# The device name attributed by udev is transmitted to hal and can be accessed
# with the utility hal-get-property.
# So with this method it doesn't need to be a fixed name.
# The user must maintain the three lists below, for the removable medias he uses.
# List of the variable part of the hal udi for the removable medias
UDI=(0000_0002 DA8E_98E0 68E8_9D1A)
# List of the corresponding desired pmount options
OPTIONS=("--sync --noatime" "--sync --noatime" "--sync --noatime")
# List of the corresponding label used to mount the device under /media
# pmount will create the /media/<label> directory itself
LABEL=(sony stick1 stick2)
NB=${#UDI[*]}
for (( I=0;I<$NB;I+=1 )); do
DEVICE=$(hal-get-property --udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_${UDI[$I]} --key=block.device 2>/dev/null)
MOUNTED=$(hal-get-property --udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_${UDI[$I]} --key=volume.is_mounted 2>/dev/null)
if [ a$DEVICE != a ] && [ -b $DEVICE ] && [ a$MOUNTED != a ] && [ $MOUNTED == false ]; then
echo "Executing command : pmount ${OPTIONS[$I]} $DEVICE ${LABEL[$I]}"
if pmount ${OPTIONS[$I]} $DEVICE ${LABEL[$I]}; then
echo "To unmount the device use : pumount /media/${LABEL[$I]}"
fi
fi
done
# To unmount before plugging out the media : pumount /media/<label>
# The command will remove the /media/<label> directory after the unmounting
The values in the file correspond to a Sony walkman and two memory sticks of mine.
The UDI values can be determined by plugging in the removable media and consulting the output of the lshal command.
I hope that this batch could be useful to someone.
Edit : Added a test to execute pmount command only if the volume is not already mounted.
Last edited by berbae (2009-06-20 09:25:06)