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That's pretty cute. `chattr +i' can be pretty handy for preventing misbehaving tools which must run as root from mangling your precious files. Also for messing with people on multi-user boxes :)

As a tiny issue, in the 3rd snippet, '/home/user/shoe/little-rock' should be left-shoe, no?

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It can also be helpful if you have a mountpoint that normally points at a remote machine (backup machine, etc), but that remote machine is unavailable for some reason. It keeps your backups from going into the mountpoint itself instead of the intended destination.

> As a tiny issue, in the 3rd snippet, '/home/user/shoe/little-rock' should be left-shoe, no?

Yes, that part probably doubled the time it took me to read the first part of the post, because I had to double-check everything.

Thanks guys for pointing that out! I just updated the text.

The 'any permissions' link is broken, too.

Fixed. Thanks a lot!

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