Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)

Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by coldpie on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:10AM (#13418670)

One feature I've always wanted is to make a directory non-deletable without otherwise changing the directory's functionality. So if I do "rm -rf ~/work" I don't lose anything, but I can still do "touch ~/work/whatever". As far as I know, this is impossible.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by slau on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @12:46PM (#13419474)

You don't actually need write access to a file/directory to delete it. You only need write access to the parent (removing or adding a file modifies the container, not the contained).

Remove write access to the parent directory, while keeping traversal and read rights, and you'll be sorted.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by coldpie on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @01:43PM (#13419943)

But then I can't add files to my home directory...

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by vidarh on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @02:17PM (#13420245)

So don't put the stuff you want to protect this way in your home directory, but somewhere else, and symlink the relevant directories to your home directory.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by coldpie on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:32PM (#13420896)

Quite clumsy, but I guess it works. I'll keep it in mind, thanks for the idea.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by slau on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @02:05PM (#13420138)

You said it was impossible. I simply indicated it wasn't.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by coldpie on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:06PM (#13420679)

The question was perhaps imprecisely phrased, but I think you can figure out what I'm trying to accomplish.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by knodi123 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @02:32PM (#13420372)

# mkdir /tmp/foo

# touch /tmp/foo/.immutable

# chattr +i /tmp/foo/.immutable

# rm -rf /tmp/foo

It's not EXACTLY what you asked for, but the .immutable file cannot be deleted until you call chattr -i on it, which protects the directory....

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by coldpie on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:05PM (#13420675)

That doesn't protect siblings of <foo/.immutable>...

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