[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> writes:

> On 6 Jan 2003, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> > > For those interested, xfs has xfsdump & xfsrestore (such utilities
> > > are common in the unix world).
> > Not to mention a "don't back up this file" file attribute.  Very handy
> > for those laptop disk images that would otherwise fill your backup
> > media.
> ext2/3 is supposed to be have this capability also: chattr +d filename
> Last time I tried this it didn't work iirc :(

Well, I have always been annoyed that one has to request this basic
functionality when using xfsdump---for some reason it's turned off by
default.  Crazy.
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