Re: [tlug] everlasting directory

[bruno raoult <br@example.com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 12:19, Matt Doughty wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:10:40PM +0900, bruno raoult wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 12:03, Matt Doughty wrote:
> > > find /home/eoflores/Desktop -maxdepth 5 | while read i; do
> > > 	ls -ldi $i;
> > > 	lsattr -ldi $i;
> > > done
> > > 
> > > never mind, I don't think any of these are necessarily preferable. Just
> > > different ways to look at it.
> > 
> > lsattr is of course only applicable on ext2 file system. If fsck was
> > run, I think this not the case...
> > 
> 
> Umm.. why exactly? I don't have a linux box handy, but IIRC fsck is just
> a front-end for the file system specific fsck. Am I missing something
> here?
> 
> --Matt

ext2fs recursive links should be detected by fsck. On (not well
supported) other FS, this could be different. Not sure, just to get
more information. But at least lsattr is only applicable in "special"
(even if usual) case: ext2fs.

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