Comment 71 for bug 1048059

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Shane Pearson (bocephus) wrote : Re: [Bug 1048059] Re: Adding ACLs to /media/$user does not work

My system is ext3
This just run from /

$ sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda5 | grep 'mount options'

dumpe2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Default mount options: (none)

On 11/22/2012 08:24 AM, Jerre Domitilli wrote:
> sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda1 | grep 'mount options'
> dumpe2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
> Default mount options: (none)
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> On 11/21/2012 10:02 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> The ubuntu installer never put the "acl" option into /etc/fstab. On my
>> quantal-installed system I have no such option:
>>
>> $ grep acl /proc/mounts /etc/fstab
>> $
>>
>> I don't see any tune2fs in our installers either. So what I suspect is
>> that mkfs enables the option by default these days, but hasn't in the
>> past?
>>
>> My /home file system was created in August 2010, and I get
>>
>> $ sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda5 | grep 'mount options'
>> Default mount options: (none)
>>
>> while my root partition (which I recreate with every install) has
>>
>> Default mount options: user_xattr acl
>>
>> On both file systems I can use ACLs, so the implicit default if the file
>> system does not specify an explicit one seems to work correctly. Can
>> people who are affected by this please run above command on their root
>> file system? (That's the kind of debugging and comparison I would like
>> to do with SSH access...)
>>
>> As a last resort I can still make udisks get along without ACL support,
>> but this would be a bad and incomplete workaround for the root problem.
>> There's certainly other software which wants ACLs to work, so I'd like
>> to get this fixed properly rather.
>>
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