No umlauts w. automounted vfat file systems, openSUSE/64bit

Hi,

This is on openSUSE/64bit 11.0
I have no german umlauts in file names on automounted vfat file systems on USB flash drives. I cannot change the files names because the system reports: “file … does not exist”


# mount
/dev/sdb1 on /media/NO_NAME type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000)

Greetings, Mark

I’d start looking here:
Search the openSUSE Mailinglist Archive
and
umlauts - Google Search

Thanks, nice tips :wink:

But this is not a general problem with umlauts. The problem is that only vfat file systems are (auto-)mounted without support of special characters. How can I change this?

Try “utf8” in your fstab line entry (or mount command)
fstab change will require a reboot

Hmm, is fstab the optimal place to change mount options for hotplug devices? What if I plug in a second and a third usb drive with vfat file systems?

Currently at least, the (wrong) mount options are configured elsewhere, not in /etc/fstab. But where? And I’m not sure if this an issue with udev or with HAL?

Thanks & best regards
Mark Weinem