le) is
set for a file and later the file is modified, the name value
vanishes, unlike what you mentioned earlier about file notes.
I noticed this too. This is a major flaw. I was thinking of writing a script
that first extracts all name/value pairs from a file, write them to a temp
file (like
attr for now. Actually I made two scripts
to use both of these commands a bit more easily.
I found a problem tho. When a name value (user.comment for example) is
set for a file and later the file is modified, the name value
vanishes, unlike what you mentioned earlier about file notes.
Maybe we
Hi Deboo,
On 6/2/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm confused between attr, getfattr and setfattr. Which one to use.
What are the differences and advantages of one over others? For simple
use, which is better?
Quote from the "CLI Magic: Use Extended Attributes for better file
manage
On 6/1/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Before attr, getfattr or setfattr would work, I had to add the user_xattr
flag to the drive's entry in /etc/fstab and umount/mount the partition. Then
I could define my own "file note" like this:
attr -s user.comment -V "Just testing..." my.t
FileNote update
After a lot of googling and reading, I finally managed to set some "file
notes".
I found the following pages especially useful:
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1352241&tid=113&tid=70&tid=89
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonE
Hi Daniel,
On 6/1/07, Daniel Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AmigaOS via the workbench also has a nice interface to view and edit
notes on files... If I was going to implement "File notes" I'd want them
integrated into konq or something ^^.
You're right. Coz
files... If I was going to implement "File notes" I'd want them
integrated into konq or something ^^.
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Hi Ron,
On 6/1/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Extended Attributes might be what you are looking for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_attribute#Linux
http://acl.bestbits.at/man/man.shtml
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/attr
Thanks for the tip. I'm gonna check thi
Hi Deboo,
On 6/1/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda
thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing manually
when creating a file or a directory. I make a eradme.txt in every
directory where I put info
On 06/01/07 05:14, Deboo ^ wrote:
On 6/1/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's my note on the File Notes theme.
Greetings, Manon.
Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda
thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing ma
On 6/1/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's my note on the File Notes theme.
Greetings, Manon.
Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda
thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing manually
when creating a file or a direct
Hi Deboo,
On 5/30/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you detail a bit about this file notes thing a bit more? What all
does it let you do? Does it have to be in the FS only? Can it not be a
software package?
An AmigaDOS file note surely is a file system thing, it's c
On 5/30/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's probably the case. As for the file notes (ie. comments), that's the
one thing in GNU/Linux I miss the most. On the other hand, it's an
incredible sophisticated OS, so I'll find a workaround. Or maybe I'll a
That's probably the case. As for the file notes (ie. comments), that's the
one thing in GNU/Linux I miss the most. On the other hand, it's an
incredible sophisticated OS, so I'll find a workaround. Or maybe I'll ask
the devs of ext3 to consider implementing file notes, as they are s
On 5/29/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
On my other platform (AmigaOS) I make a lot of use of file notes.
Eg. if I download a file, I keep the original file name to store it,
but the url is stored in the file note. So when I later want to know
where that file came from,
Sorry, I forgot to mention the following:
I'm using ext3 file system and
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Manon.
Hi,
On my other platform (AmigaOS) I make a lot of use of file notes.
Eg. if I download a file, I keep the original file name to store it, but the
url is stored in the file note. So when I later want to know where that file
came from, I just have to look at the file note.
Another thing is when
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