25 October, 2015

how to protect a file from being deleted even by root?

How to prevent/protect a file from being deleted even by root?
There is only one way to protect file from being deleted,
with one command in your terminal.
Yes, you can change the attributes of the file to read-only.

The command is:

$ chattr +i filename

And to disable it:

$ chattr -i filename

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