Hi Deboo,
On 6/4/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm using getfattr and setfattr for now. Actually I made two scripts
to use both of these commands a bit more easily.
Could you mail me the script, please?
I found a problem tho. When a name value (user.comment for example) is
set fo
On 6/2/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quote from the "CLI Magic: Use Extended Attributes for better file
management" page (which is at
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1352241&tid=113&tid=70&tid=89
):
I'm using getfattr and setfattr for now. Actually I made two s
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/CommonExtendedAttributes
http://www.sq
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 I almost never use it via Workb
Manon Metten wrote:
BTW: IIRC from C-programming (has been a very long time ago), AmigaDOS
uses a FileInfoBlock structure and that's where the file note (alias
comment) is stored. The structure looks like this:
AmigaOS via the workbench also has a nice interface to view and edit
notes on files.
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 about t
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 manually
when creat
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 directory. I make a
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 certainly no
soft
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 ask
the devs of ext3 to consider
Hi Kelly,
On 5/30/07, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... As for the CD, it must be using Rock Ridge extensions with
Amiga extensions ...
The Linux iso9960 (CD filesystem) driver supports Rock Ridge but
it may not support Amiga extensions (I suspect it does not).
That's probably
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, I just h
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
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