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I just installed Netflix Desktop on my Cinnamon Mint, but I can't start it. When I run the program, I get the following message:

It appears that you do not have extended file system attributes enabled. Please enable the user_xattr option for your filesystem and try again.

I tried to edit the fstab file as told in a couple different posts, but they don't work; I don't have a line that looks like this in my file:

UUID=94f7fc1e-fa27-4b24-99f3-4b461665a4a4       /       ext4    errors=remount-ro,user_xattr       0       1

And when I add it and restart, nothing changes.

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You need to leave your UUID for your hard drive in that modification. This UUID in the example is different than yours:

UUID=94f7fc1e-fa27-4b24-99f3-4b461665a4a4

An entry for your / should've already been present for your HDD.

If you're unsure what UUID your HDD has you can use the blkid command to get the UUIDs' for your HDDs.

Example

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="1f2832de-ee34-461f-8fb1-cb86ffde8d44" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="6qwe112-dGB3-vCp2-XibP-qsmE-nWbs-E123eJ" TYPE="LVM2_member" 
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root: UUID="5b6417237-ab46-1234-11f9-81dcf2111129" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1: UUID="5ab3q12h-26a7-85qw-12fd-57e7c95e2232" TYPE="swap"

Your fstab file may have a line like this:

/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

You should change the options from this errors=remount-ro to this errors=remount-ro,user_xattr.

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  • OK, I think the problem is that I am running it live off of a flash drive. Every time I restart, my changes to fstab are reversed. Is there any way I can get around that? Also, which one these drives is the one I should use? The flash drive name is IANSAN5653. – Ian Nov 30 '13 at 00:28
  • @Ian - yeah you should be able to change it. This one is likely the USB drive: /dev/sdb1. Give me a couple of minutes to look up how to do it, if it's possible. – slm Nov 30 '13 at 00:36
  • @Ian - I would assume that Mint would be similar to Ubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/48535/how-to-customize-the-ubuntu-live-cd – slm Nov 30 '13 at 01:04
  • OK, here is my fstab file now. It works, but when I remount the drive I get this message: mount: mount point /vfat does not exist. – Ian Nov 30 '13 at 01:45
  • @Ian - it's likely that the file is dynamically rebuilt at boot/run each time. The directory /vfat doesn't exist. You'll have to pick a different directory that exists. – slm Nov 30 '13 at 02:00
  • OK, I thought that was the drive type. What directory should it be? – Ian Dec 03 '13 at 22:39
  • @Ian - no the 3rd column is the type. Hard to say. It would have to be a directory that is present, yet is empty. I would look at /mnt if that exists to start. – slm Dec 03 '13 at 22:47