USB Disk doesn't support ACL's

**bored** · 15 April 2006, 15:51

after lurking for a while im happy to make a useful first post (i hope). USB disks are FAT32 formatted by default and FAT32 does not support ACL. You have to format it using NTFS, although you won't be able to read the disk in Win95/98 and you'll have to "safely remove" the disk every time. Google for "format usb ntfs" for more info.

**milanbenes** · 15 April 2006, 16:01

thanks

Milan.

**Cowboy Bob** · 15 April 2006, 16:59

Or format it Reiser FS and dump the Billyware...

**Jabberwocky** · 15 April 2006, 18:39

Originally posted by milanbenes

Bugger, anyone know if this is a parameter or anything ?

Ta

Milan.

Certainly, if you tweak the odd knob then that makes it more likely. Dangerous doing this sort of thing in a sandbox, that grit will get everyhere.

**Cowboy Bob** · 15 April 2006, 21:58

Originally posted by cswd

And get your filesystem dumped... ReiserFS bombs left right and center.

Been running happily for well over a year with the fstab below on my desktop machine. Reiser is a lot more stable now that it was 3 or 4 years ago. Always used to use ext3 to have a journalling file system that was stable. Reiser's caught up now.

Code:

mparker@ivan:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6            /                    reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/hda9            /home                reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/hda8            /usr                 reiserfs   acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/hda7            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder     /media/dvdrecorder   subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,users,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

mparker@ivan:~>

**darmstadt** · 17 April 2006, 09:01

Well we've recently switched over to ReiserFS from ext3 on SuSE 9.3 for production systems and it works a dream for us. No problems encountered so far but I think I'll keep an eye out now.

**cojak** · 18 April 2006, 09:32

Excuse me - why isn't this in Technical?

Are we Linux peeps hiding from Dim and Threaded here?

Any - I've just dumped the pile of kakk that was Mandrake 10 for SimplyMepis 3.4.3.

Wot a relief - I've finally got my eth0 back and I didn't have to struggle for printer drivers and how about that synaptic package manager and... *rambles incoherently for ten minutes*...and the laptop is much happier as well.

**threaded** · 18 April 2006, 09:43

What's up darling, not giving you enough sweet lovin'.?

**cojak** · 18 April 2006, 10:38

no threaded you're guru enough for me, it's just that I have needs too.... and linux... well....

USB Disk doesn't support ACL's