Extended File System Attributes

Clean forgot there were something called extended attributes. This jogged my memory a bit. In summary: For ext3 or xfs, add the user_xattr option while mounting. Eg. in /etc/fstab edit the lines that mount ext3 or xfs file systems like this:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime,user_xattr 0 1 Then remount the partitions:
mount -o remount,user_xattr / Then use setfattr and getfattr to set/get extended attributes.

• Create an attribute 'testing' in the 'user' namespace: setfattr -n user.testing -v "this is a test" test-1.txt
• Delete the attribute: setfattr -x user.testing test-1.txt
• Retrieve the attribute: getfattr -n user.testing test-1.txt
• Backup all extended attributes: getfattr --dump * > data_file
• Restore all extended attributes: setfattr --restore=data_file

And oh, if you dont have setfattr and getfattr, you can get the sources from the SGI site or look for 'attr' on rpmseek or rpmfind.net

Checking Fedora Core CD Media

Checksum Fedora Core ISOs prior to burning them with md5sum (FC3 and earlier) or sha1sum (FC4 and later). When installing Fedora Core off CD media do a mediacheck. Recommended way to do the media check:
boot: linux mediacheck ide=nodma
So far I've not been using ide=nodma - which may explain the reason I've got a failure on working discs as well.