On 2026-04-22 16:52, Pocket wrote:
On 4/22/26 3:30 AM, Łukasz Michalski wrote:A good practice is to set chattr +i on directories that are mount points for filesystems.Why would/should I want to do that? What would be the advantage for doing so? I ask this because I have not done so since running Linux since 1995. This is the first time I have seen this recommendation.
A look into `man chattr` will tell you what it does: disallowing changes to the directory or to files in it, but it doesn’t apply to the mounted filesystem. Though in this case Lucie mounted a wrong partition, so it wouldn’t have helped here. Best, tippfehlr
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