ntfs-3g linpus and automatic mount in ro/rw ?

hello,
when i plug my ntfs external usb hard drive, it is mounted as readonly.

Code:

dev/sdb5/ on /media/DISK type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,......

but I know that ntfs-3g is installed here (version 1.1030)
I have to unmount and then mannually mount it with

Code:

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb5 /mnt/windows

how can I tell the system to use ntfs-3g in rw instead of "i-dont-know-what-in-read-only" ?

and also another question, can we update ntfs-3g to a more recent version ?
do you have experiance with acer linpus and updating ntfs-3g ?
thank you.

EDIT : do not try ntfs-config, it's not working and may broke your system even if you uninstall it !!!

 

Update with:

Code:

sudo yum update ntfs-3g

For writing:
I found that

Code:

sudo yum install ntfs-config
sudo ntfs-config

And then allowing writing to external media did the trick.

 

thank you, but,
now when I plug my usb ntfs drive, I got an error that only "root can mount this device"

 

Unplug it and reboot. Then replug.

 

what I did ! serveral times.
now I would like to get back the old behavior...
I have unflag both write support for internal and external device in ntfs-config (and reboot)
but I still have problem I don't know where but my config is broken now :shock:
I still have this mount error !

I'll now try to uninstall this package, and cross my finger.

 

damn !
it's broken !!!!
I removed this package but now I cannot mount (automatically) an NTFS drive.


ok, after searching for modified file, I found that 3 files that were changed :
/etc/fstab/
I removed the line that ntfs-config added
(it was about the device of my ntfs drive, I did not change anything else)

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-read-policy
this file was a broken link, I removed it.

/media/.created-by-python-fstab
this file content was only the device name of my external ntfs harddrive
I removed it.


now, it's ok on thunar, I can plug my ntfs drive, it's mounted, read only, but it works...

EDIT :
finally, the only solution I have is to manual mounting thanks to ntfs-3g : do alt-f2 termial, and then :

Code:

# first unmount automatic ro mount :
umount /dev/sdb5
# and mount in rw mode :
ntfs-3g /dev/sdb5 /mnt/windows

I made a script for that action.