Guys, I'm an idiot. Okay.. got that out of the way. you see, this is the 2nd time I've shot myself in the foot with this same problem. I wanted to tar something before I ssh'ed copied it to another system like this tar -czf - fileA | ssh system-B tar -xvzf - -C /untar/directory You see.. sometimes(twice this week) I shoot myself in the foot by mixing up the sequence of tar and end up munging the original data to bits!!! eg : Org-data 1M After Mixup Org-Data 45K and Lo and behold, I lost the data!! BAH! So.. to prevent this from ever happening again, is there some program that will actually stop me/the program from erasing the original data if I mix up the sequence of tar? I know Chattr can do exactly that for the ext2/3 filesystem. Is one available for XFS? Or will I have to 1: Knock tar into my thick skull 2: chmod a-w Org-Data?? (This I'm not even sure will work) /Idiot --
