[plug] Catalogue Database (DVD, etc. titles?)

[Shannon Carver]

This is true for ext2/3fs, but reiserfs for instance, doesn't have the
immutable tag, at least not last time I checked.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Cameron Patrick
> Sent: Monday, 10 April 2006 11:08 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Catalogue Database (DVD, etc. titles?)
> 
> Bernd Felsche wrote:
> 
> > Always save a copy of the original data. Write-protect the file.
> > Create a dotted sub-directory and place a hard link to the data
> > file within that directory; then make the sub-directory mode zero.
> > It'll make the file very hard to "lose" with normal user
> > permissions.
> 
> An easier way of achieving this is `chattr +i`:
> 
>        A file with the 'i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be
> deleted
>        or  renamed,  no  link  can  be created to this file and no data
> can be
>        written to the file.  Only the superuser or a  process  possessing
> the
>        CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.
> 
> > Take a copy and put it on CD/tape/floppy.
> 
> Yup.  Don't trust software with your only copy of any important data!
> 
> Cameron
> 
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