It still mounts currently on my Chromebook, I'd be disappointed if they dropped ext4 support in the future, we'll have to see what they do.
Crouton shows the /home/user directory has 0754 permission... I can see the files listed in Chrome file manager, but not in Crouton. My Crouton user is a member of the group number for the directory, so if this were real Linux, it should still let me have access. And not surprisingly Crouton won't let me sudo chmod the directory. I did get Ubuntu on the thumb drive, but then Windows recovery mode wouldn't let me navigate, by keyboard or trackpad or touch screen, to any of the options. The only thing I could do was hold the power button down to get it to turn off and reboot. I think I'll just have to wait till I get home to fix the permissions, or verify something isn't right. On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 2:16 AM Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, I didn't even know ext4 could be not supported on Chrome OS. > There was a community push-back: > https://www.networkworld.com/article/931460/chromeos-team-listens-to-linux-community-brings-back-ext2-3-4.html > Was the push-back successful? I sold my ChromeBook so I cannot test it. > If it's not supported then it'd be weird if it could be mounted at all. > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 10:55 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for all the replies! If I was home, this would have been a few >> minutes to check/verify. However I'm out of town, and have a Microsoft >> Surface Windows machine from work, and a Chromebook (and today I was >> babysitting my 1 yo toddler granddaughter so progress has been >> excruciatingly slow). I'm trying to create a bootable USB drive on Windows >> now, but now that's throwing an error when it gets 20% in. Fun times. >> >> I don't ever remember setting up any ACL's for that directory... Whenever >> I looked at them in the past I thought they'd be a headache and abandoned >> the idea. It is a /home/user/ directory that I backed up, have chmod >> commands in the script, had verified working months ago, but foolishly >> assumed everything would still be working now... Once I can get to it as >> root, I can verify perms an chown --recursive too. >> >> Ugh! I hadn't seen ChromeOS decided to deprecate ext4 support. *sigh* >> >> Hopefully I'll have positive news soon... Of course I'm going back home >> this weekend. I can just access the files directly from the server once I'm >> back >> >> ---Paul. >> >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:40 PM Dan Bacus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> I hate to even ask because they are the bane of my existence, but >>> have you checked ACLs just in case they are denying access somehow? >>> Especially at a directory level? (Lord, but I hate those sneaky little >>> buggers...) >>> >>> Has a user been defined to match the UID of the file owner from the >>> source system? If not, maybe "chown -R 0:0 /mount/point" to get everything >>> owned by root, and a group of root, at least? I claim to know absolutely >>> nothing about Chrome OS, so I have no idea how it deals with file access >>> when ownership of a file can't be traced back to a valid user name. >>> >>> Less likely to be an issue, but have you done a "ls -ld /mount/point" >>> to see permissions on the mounted filesystem's mount point? Back when I >>> taught the troubleshooting class for Sun Microsystems, one of the problems >>> we gave students was doing "chmod 0000 /", resulting in only the root user >>> being able to log in. No other non-root users could log into the system. >>> Troubleshooting as root, students would check perms on /etc, /home, /usr, >>> /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and the like; but only rarely would someone think >>> to do "ls -ld /" to look at permissions there without a little nudge from >>> the old instructor. If you can't read / - well then you can't read >>> anything anywhere below it either... >>> >>> I'm sorry that I could not be of any more help. Best of luck to you! >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> So... I've got an external drive I used to copy files from my Linux >>>> computer. The partition is ext4. >>>> >>>> Some directories I can access on the Chromebook, but others I can't. >>>> >>>> I tried changing all the directory permissions to 0777 and all the file >>>> permissions to 0666 on the problematic directories/files, but I am still >>>> getting "Your file couldn’t be accessedIt may have been moved, edited, or >>>> deleted. >>>> ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND" >>>> >>>> Everything I've found online points to not being able to mount the >>>> whole partition. 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