Is there anyway to turn on the dynamic collection feature on non removable drives?

I use kubuntu and have installed the ntfs-3g driver, but currently you have to manually mount drives to use them (want read/write access).  This means that Amarok doesn't detect it as a usb external drive and therefore the dynamic collection feature doesn't work and all songs on the disk are rescanned to add to the collection.

Thanks,
Ash.

Make sure that there is a line for your NTFS partition in /etc/fstab, even if you always mount it manually. That's a limitation of KDE's mediamanager.

Adding it to the /etc/fstab would mean I'd need to make sure I plug the drive in to the same usb port each time for it to  work and surely by doing this Amarok wouldn't detect it as a removable drive? so Dynamic Collection still wouldn't work.

ardnut wrote:Adding it to the /etc/fstab would mean I'd need to make sure I plug the drive in to the same usb port each time for it to  work and surely by doing this Amarok wouldn't detect it as a removable drive? so Dynamic Collection still wouldn't work.

No, the device file is independed of the usb slot you are using (the scsi subsystem is doing this BTW).
I think (if I understand it right), Maximilian wants you to add a line for the ntfs partition and then the drive (i.e. the mount point) will be added to the media manager.

You're right I was talking rubbish.  What I meant was that the first mass storage device plugged in will always get /dev/sda1.  Adding an entry for this in to the fstab to use ntfs-3g would mean that any fat32 usb thumb drive plugged in (on its own) would fail to mount.  Any way round this?

So back to my original question, is there any way to use Dynamic Collection on non removable drives, or am I going to just have to wait for KDE's storage manager to support ntfs-3g?

Please run dcop kded mediamanager fullList on the command line when your partition is mounted. Is there a section for your NTFS partition? If yes, can you post the complete output?