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Ryan C. Thompson
Asked: 2010-08-08 10:09:24 +0800 CST

How to enable ACLs by default on all filesystems?

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Is there a way in linux to make "acl" part of the default mount options, so that it does not need to be specified individually for each filesystem in fstab?

linux mount access-control-list fstab

2 Answers

  1. I don't believe there's any facility in mount or /etc/fstab to set defaults. You will need to specify acl for each filesystem. Why is this a problem?

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  2. Best Answer

    If you just want to clean up /etc/fstab, then you should be able to change the FS metadata to put acls into the default mount options on a per-FS basis. Not really buying you much, as it moves the important data out of sight and so will be forgotten when it comes time to rebuild, unless you have a strong documentation culture.

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