- About chattr : change file attributes on a Linux file system
- Comes From : e2fsprogs-1.41.12-3.el6.i686
Examples:
1. To change attribute of a file to “append only”
| $ chattr +a file.txt |
2. To change attribute of a file to “compressed”
| $ chattr +c file.txt |
3. To change attribute of a file to “no dump”
| $ chattr +d file.txt |
4. To change attribute of a file to “exten format”
| $ chattr +e file.txt |
5. To change attribute of a file to “immutable”
| $ chattr +i file.txt |
6. To change attribute of a file to “data journaling”
| $ chattr +j file.txt |
7. To change attribute of a file to “secure deletion”
| $ chattr +s file.txt |
8. To change attribute of a file to “no tail-merging”
| $ chattr +t file.txt |
9. To change attribute of a file to “undeletable”
| $ chattr +u file.txt |
10. To change attribute of a file to “no atime updates”
| $ chattr +A file.txt |
11. To change attribute of a file to “synchronous directory updates”
| $ chattr +D file.txt |
12. To change attribute of a file to “synchronous updates”
| $ chattr +S file.txt |
13. To change attribute of a file to “top of directory hierarchy”
| $ chattr +T file.txt |
14. To set the attributes recursively
| $ chattr -R +i file.txt |
15. To have verbose output
| $ chattr -V |
16. To supress most error messages
| $ chattr -f |
