On Thursday, March 31, 2011 09:27:00 Anne Wilson wrote: > I have a small text file that I want to ensure cannot be accidentally deleted, > so I ran > > chattr -i /home/anne/WebPages/UserBase/filename.txt If you want to add an attribute you have to use +<attribute> , because -i means "remove". See man chattr so you need: chattr +i /home/anne/WebPages/UserBase/filename.txt > (as root, of course). Running lsattr against the same file produced > > -------------e- /home/anne/WebPages/UserBase/filename.txt > > 'i' doesn't show in ls -l filename, either. I haven't come across 'e' before. > What is it, and is my file immutable or not? What is it: man chattr: The 'e' attribute indicates that the file is using extents for mapping the blocks on disk. It may not be removed using chattr(1). Is your file immutable: no, it isn't Michal _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
