\begin{Steve Kowalik}
> chattr is used to change the extended attributes of an inode on a ext2
> partition.> append only (Very useful if you keep using > instead of >>) and for syslog files (obviously) > compressed - I'm not sure why this is here, as I haven't seen it used. there were some patches to implement it. haven't heard about it in a while, i guess hard disks got cheaper. > no dump - Can't use file with dump(8) my #1 reason for preferring dump/restore over most other backup methods. > immutable - File is untouchable and unchangeable. set it on /bin/login, etc. confound your friends. > undeletable never did work out how to use this one. i seem to remember some stuff going in for it in real early 2.3 (?). iirc, it just means the kernel keeps a reference on the inode until the filesystem is unmounted or something. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
