ACL and ext3

lousyd · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 6:15 am Post subject: ACL and ext3

What package contains ACL stuff?
What package contains the ext3 filesystem?

Matje · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 8:24 am Post subject:

The ext3 filesystem should be enabled in your kernel (ext2 with journalling enabled) You can create a ext3 filesystem with mke2fs -j /dev/hdx. The rest of the utils for ext2 work for ext3 too. You can find them in e2fsprogs.
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lousyd · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject:

So, if I wanted to install a new filesystem, I'd simply enable it in the kernel? Filesystem software is purely in the kernel? There's no non-kernel packages that are required to make the filesystem exist?

Matje · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject:

For your kernel to understand it and for you to mount it, no. If you want to create or filecheck a filesystem you do need extra packages, in this case e2fsprogs
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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

How does one use ACLs on ext3?

That's something I've been wondering about since I started using ext3, though I'll have to admit I haven't exactly lost sleep over it. Just would be nice to more finely granulate permissions.