[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[David Jericho]

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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:47:43PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > 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 :(

It does, from chattr(1)

"A file with the `d' attribute set is not candidate for backup when the 
dump(8) program is run."

I just tried it then, and it worked fine.

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David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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