On Sunday 08 Apr 2012 16:56:23 David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 17:26:03 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about > > [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 (?) ? > > Yes, it's simple. > > 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. > > 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 you are formatting the partition ... is this incorrect? Of course if you must format the drive with such options then the data won't survive. -- Regards, Mick
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