[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, David Jericho wrote:

I wrote:

> > 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.

Interesting.  I wanted to use this to stop old dump files lying on a
particular filesystem (couldn't put them anywhere else at the time) from
being caught up in a backup.  There was some caveat or "gotcha" but I've
forgotten exactly what problem I saw now.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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