Re: undeletable files in /lost+found

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
17 Jun 1998 11:44:59 +0200


Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it> writes:

|> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, tzanger wrote:
|>
|> >In retrospect, would it not be possible to unset the immutable attribute
|> >bit, then give the files a sane mode (444?) THEN use debugfs or something
|>
|> I haven' t understand very well your email due my English, but you can
|> set/unset the immutable flag with `chattr +/-i filename`.

chattr does not work on device special files. That's a kernel bug.

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