I researched this awhile ago and found out precisely how to change the defaults for auto mounted filesystems in FC3 which applies to FC4 too. The example below will make sure that all FAT32,FAT16,FAT12 auto-mounted filesystems by hald display mixed case. It seems that hald is responsible for all mounting options and is VERY configurable. I wish someone would post a how-to for tweaking everything hald can do. Whoever integrated hald into Fedora should get an award!
If you want to limit the mixed case to filesystems under 2 gigs that can be done too! It just takes another match key in the right place(I dont remember the exact thing to put there but if you want this limited to small filesystems I should be able it up somewhere.
Btw... I posted something similar to this for fedorasolved.com about FC3 and the sonypsp. On that site I show how to create another .fdi file to always mount the sony psp as /media/sonypsp... /media/sonypsp1... /media/sonypsp2... etc. Did I mention that hald rocks? Now we just need a gui to configure this stuff :).
Add the following file to /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/ to get FAT filesystems to display mixed case when FC3 automounts them.
---- file name fatmixedcase.fdi ----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
<match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">
<match key="volume.fsversion" string="FAT12">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=mixed" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="volume.fsversion" string="FAT16">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=mixed" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="volume.fsversion" string="FAT32">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=utf8" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.shortname=mixed" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
---- end of file fatmixedcase.fdi ----
Adam, Thanks alot. This is a great solution. I got your another post too. http://fedorasolved.com/viewtopic.php?t=37&highlight=sonypsp
cheers,
Yuandan
