Re: [gentoo-user] File-system mounting questions

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 05:36:35PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote
> On Friday, September 18, 2015 5:14:15 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
> >  * Could not set caps on '/usr/bin/readcd' due to missing filesystem support:
> >  * * enable XATTR support for 'ext2/ext3' in your kernel (if configurable)
> >  * * mount the fs with the user_xattr option (if not the default)
> >  * * enable the relevant FS_SECURITY option (if configurable)
> > >>> Auto-cleaning packages...
> > 
> >   That might explain my problems.  So I modified my kernel as below...
> > 
> > <*> Second extended fs support
> > [*]   Ext2 extended attributes
> > [ ]     Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists
> > [ ]     Ext2 Security Labels
> > <*> Ext3 journalling file system support
> > [*]   Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3
> > [*]   Ext3 extended attributes
> > [ ]     Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists
> > [ ]     Ext3 Security Labels
> 
> You'll also need this ^

[...deletia...]

> Just add the user_xattr unde <opts> column. Like:
> 
> UUID=34868f06-d56b-4539-a649-33ec96b50d74       /               ext3            noatime,user_xattr      0 1

  Thanks.  It has greatly improved things.  I added...
[*]     Ext2 Security Labels
[*]     Ext3 Security Labels

Thank you very much; it works.  The number of warnings as regular user
is greatly reduced.  It no longer complains about insufficient device
permissions or the possibility of jitter.  There are now only 2 lines of
meddages.  They're about "Operation not permitted", like so...


No media catalog number present.
scanning for ISRCs: 20 ...
index scan: 20...
samplefile size will be 494726780 bytes.
recording 2804.5733 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz ->'audio'...
using lib paranoia for reading.
cdda2wav: Operation not permitted. Cannot set process capabilities.
cdda2wav: Operation not permitted. Cannot set posix realtime scheduling policy.


  But everything seems to work OK, so I'm satisfied.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications