explain the 'locale' mount option a bit better

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szaka 2007-08-17 17:13:49 +00:00
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or
ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
You may also need to set the 'locale' option to make file names with national
characters visible. Replace the below hu_HU.utf8 with the appropriate setting.
If your Operating System vendor didn't setup your language specific settings
then you may also need to set the 'locale' mount option to make all filenames
with national characters visible. Replace the below en_US.UTF-8 with the
appropriate setting. You can find more information about his topic at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=hu_HU.utf8
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=en_US.UTF-8
Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples.

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Mount filesystem read\-only.
.TP
.BI locale= value
You can set locale with this option which is often required to make
visible files with national charaters. It's useful if the locale
environment variables are not set before partitions had been mounted
from /etc/fstab.
This option can be useful if your language specific locale environment
variables are not set correctly or at all in your operating system.
In such cases, the national characters can be made visible by using this
option. Please see more information about this topic at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale
.TP
.B force
Force mount even if the volume is scheduled for consistency check or