> Mounting as ext4 enables acl by default, but mounting as ext3 doesn't (see the linux kernel documentation).
For the record, I cannot reproduce this as I already said in my earlier comment when I tried it with ext2: sudo modprobe scsi_debug sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/ sudo touch /media/test.txt sudo setfacl -m u:www-data:r /media/test.txt This all works, and I correctly get $ sudo getfacl /media/test.txt user::rw- user:www-data:r-- [...] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048059 Title: Adding ACLs to /media/$user does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/udisks/+bug/1048059/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs