How to enable ext3 extended attributes for removable disks (for Beagle)?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Fri Aug 26 22:09:14 UTC 2005


On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:39:07AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 03:30 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>> The above command will set the *default* mount option to include
>> "user_xattr" unless overridden by the actual "mount" command (or the
>> options in "/etc/fstab").  
>
>Thanks for the tip. I also checked with dump2fs as suggested by Magnus
>Therning in the other reply, and it in fact lists "Default mount
>options: user_xattr"
>
>However, when I execute "mount", it still says:
>/dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>
>I.e., user_xattr is not mentioned. How do I know that
>gnome-volume-manager's mount command does not override the default
>setting?

What if you try setting a user attribute and then read it?

 $ setfattr -n user.test -v test <path to a file on the device>
 $ getfattr -n user.test <path to the same file as above>

/M

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