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Re: NT vs Linux



Hi

Oren Shomron wrote:
> 
> Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> 
> > Quoth Yedidya Bar-david on Thu, Jun 10, 1999:
> > > I must add, that there are things that e2fsck can't fix at all - e.g.
> > > I once had a hardware problem, and fsck moved some files to
> > > /lost+found, with permissions that didn't let me delete them
> > > no matter what I did.
> >
> > Something like that once happened to me on Linux, too.
> 
> Sounds like you could have fixed it with chattr.
> 

Thanks. I might try that if it happens again :-(
I solved it with debugfs. It's probably much more dangerous
(and less comfortable).
However, I must say I didn't find any simple way to find a link
to it. It is not in the 'SEE ALSO' section of any of e2fsck or
chmod. I only found it in /usr/doc/e2fsprogs/README,
which is not one of the first places to look for.
Just to check, I zgreped it in /usr/man/man[18]/*, and it is
mentioned only in lsattr(1).
I didn't read the new SAG (sysadmin guide), I only read one of
the first versions (maybe 5 years ago). I now greped the new one
(0.6.1), and it is not mentioned either. Does anyone have an 
opinion about it? Would you recommend it to a new SA?
The reason I talk so much (probably way off-topic) is that I am not
only interested in solving my own problems, but also to know what is
the minimum one has to know in order to solve such problems. Of course,
man -k is sometimes good enough, but many times you just have to know
things by heart. That what makes many people hate Unix (and Linux) -
they don't want to know (although this kind of people doesn't read any
docs even if they are very useful).

	didi