I'd like to amend my comments. I've never used this attribute myself. On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:01 pm, Ben Maas wrote: > On Wednesday 21 April 2004 03:16 pm, Christopher wrote: > > Is there any sort file recovery software for linux? > > Something like undelete or Easy Recovery Pro? > > (a user deleted a file that wasn't backed up yet) > > Yes, well, maybe, but its probably too late now. > > In the ext2 and ext3 file systems one of the extended file attributes is > "u", or "undeleteable". However, it has to be set before you actually > delete the file. Support also has to be compiled into the kernel I > believe. > > See the chattr(1) man page for more details. > > > TIA, > > Chris > > Your welcome. -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list