Re: Extended Attributes

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 <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:

> From: Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com>
> > 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).
>
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