On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:07:51AM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> By means that are best not admitted to, I managed to mark a large
> chunk of my filesystem append-only, including symlinks. I cleared the
> flag from all the normal files and directories, but chattr and lsattr
> don't want to operate on symlinks.
Yes. So how did you set a whole chunk of your file system
append-only?
> Any ideas on how to clear the append-only flags? debug2fs is a little
> scary, and hacking e2fsprogs to allow operation on symlinks seems to
> affect symlink targets and not the symlinks themselves.
I'd probably hack it into e2fsck, and let it offer to clear the
append-only flag on things that aren't regular files, on the theory
that they should have never been allowed to be set to begin with.
- Ted
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