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Type: Task
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Status: Resolved
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Priority: Minor
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 2.0.1004
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Component/s: None
Under Linux extended attributes are supported but not activated by default on most filesystems (ext2, ext3, ext4, ...).
So remounting the partition is necessary for Drive to work:
sudo mount -oremount,user_xattr /dev/sda3
This is added in the installation documentation for Linux https://github.com/nuxeo/nuxeo-drive/#ubuntudebian-and-other-linux-variants-client
The fact that Drive won't start without this option can be a problem.
Under OS X, HFS+ filesystems support extended attributes by default, but if a user decides to put the Drive files on another filesystem type this might not be the case, preventing Drive from working.