Hello. Craig Carey wrote: [snip] > Eighthly, the GNU project is defending its observable 'in action' > trait of taking a stubborn stand over data loss. Normally it just > causes it (Glitchix). [snip]
I don't think the Linux kernel is part of the GNU project. That's one reason why it's called GNU/Linux and not just GNU. If a document on data recovery of ext3 filesystems exists, I would expect it to tell you about the chattr command. Having been a victim of minor data loss from a Linux kernel bug that caused corruption in FAT filesystems, I can sympathise with you. It still surprises me that kernels relatively late into the stable series can cause data corruption. I got burnt by 2.2.9 (I think). The man pages are automatically generated. They're just a summary of the output of "foo -h", listing the switches and directing the user to the info documentation. So the information about chattr would belong in the info documentation. I agree it would be good if the info documentation to mention reasons other than file permissions for why the file can't be removed. Perhaps there should be an OS-specific section in the "Changing file attributes" node, which could be linked to from the rm node. I'll write a documentation patch for coreutils (which is the merger of fileutils, sh-utils, textutils). Regards, -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ] _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
