From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SGv67-0007RA-Pk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:36:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25419E0AC8; Sun, 8 Apr 2012 16:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADD4E083D for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2012 16:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so3159698wgb.10 for ; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:34:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=heNQLgZDROEmn5QlFRk7R98Ufb93uSXlycPF0q1MT+0=; b=mAv/VpXzi+sXGgazKz8blrI6d2dT/kAc3zUGOWWFfpflGGTKzvyeqaJ/TYp7O0XFKW /EQuhcIskAlcCGNKSzeYJa5rvss0cTO1IKCbgLYzAaFQvFQM+ApNUkLcqShtZWoDYjIc R5Hx9oJPKk+aMYa5npzfjkjWvtL0taWjn31aDOEnGk+cbAA01jV8WRsU15Ak/QH8pYY6 PaLc/VZtr4IT/hxCUDd4YLdkIkTcaqo1KB1EuXcoHnXqjT63j8fp2wZBsD+A44kvGcq9 NQIqRHm9+I56oep3nHoERrgIRYAmRCOJl/fQHx4NwaZKIE9W91h/aBKuYgm19Jl2cgl+ gcGg== Received: by 10.180.96.228 with SMTP id dv4mr10132730wib.14.1333902844095; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ff9sm23472718wib.2.2012.04.08.09.34.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:34:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4 Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:34:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.12-gentoo; KDE/4.8.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20120408152603.GC3025@solfire> <20120408165623.5fd4fcc6@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20120408165623.5fd4fcc6@karnak.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1442961.xQ1XCJFR0i"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201204081734.11781.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3d41485e-6730-4067-b7cb-35d6267b37bb X-Archives-Hash: f07ef368ef93f70c3ed68036811561d0 --nextPart1442961.xQ1XCJFR0i Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 08 Apr 2012 16:56:23 David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:26:03 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about >=20 > [gentoo-user] Extended file attributes: ext4: > > is it possible to go from an ext4-filesystem with no extended file > > attributes to one with extended file attributes without reformatting > > the disk or other very risky low level things just by adding this > > feature to the kenrel (?) ? >=20 > Yes, it's simple. >=20 > You need to ensure that your kernel configuration has the extended > attribute support (ACL is a good idea too) and you have booted with the > ext4 driver so configured. >=20 > You then add the xattr option in /etc/fstab for the filesystem(s) where > you want extended attribute support. If you do that before you reboot > (as above) then you will have full extended attribute support. I thought that you are meant to pass such options on the CLI at the time yo= u=20 are formatting the partition ... is this incorrect? Of course if you must format the drive with such options then the data won'= t=20 survive. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1442961.xQ1XCJFR0i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk+BvgMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZPGACg8zgeONPLJDO0z5nrptrG1kPY irMAoLtmIlU6mACgZqI500Ld0GLgGx8y =6r7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1442961.xQ1XCJFR0i--