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Re: Purging database packages



--On Mon, May 18, 1998 12:46 pm -0400 "Raul Miller" <rdm@test.legislate.com>
wrote: 

> Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
>> 3. Should there be policy on this matter for database packages in
particular?
> 
> I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the data
> should not be deleted.  In a busy environment with several sysadmins,
> you want to be able to make such decisions ahead of time.

Can't you use chattr for this?

Excuse my ignorance of ext2 - I don't know which flags it would be..

Jules


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