Thanks Matt! That should help explain what few things might show up but this seems like a fairly rare occurrence and unlikely to be of use to most people or students at least until a system administration class. Just for grins though, I'd still like to find something that shows the positional usage for the output from lsattr. Perhaps there is a clue in that man chattr shows 18 attributes and lsattr shows 19 (by my count) positions in the attr list. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Dazed_75 > > Joseph mentioned the command lsattr which I had forgotten about so I read > > the man page and tried it. I can find no explanation of the meaning of > the > > results. > > > > --------------I--e- /var/log/bootchart > > > > While http://linux.die.net/man/5/attr gives a fair explanation of what > > extended attributes are used for, I've found nothing to help interpret > the > > attributes displayed by lsattr. > > "man chattr" says: > > The ’I’ attribute is used by the htree code to indicate that a > directory is > being indexed using hashed trees. It may not be set or reset using > chattr(1), > although it can be displayed by lsattr(1). > > ...which is a bit strange, but whatever. Not that many of the attrs > described > in the man page for chattr actually look useful, though the "i" attribute > might be interesting for some things that are rarely modified and really > important (like libc, or inittab, or grub.conf). > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson