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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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[SOLVED] lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags

I'm migrating to ext4 and I just ran lsattr on / to see if any of it was done. I'm receiving this message:

lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on {dev, sys, proc}

The many web sites that I found on this doesn't give me much insight. Is this something to be concerned about?

By the way, I've already done the conversion and fsck seemed to go fine. I haven't run the defrag script yet.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED] lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags

Have got the same on ext3, I guess that's because those directories are mountpoints for filesystems that exist only in ram (devfs, procfs etc.).

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags

Have got the same on ext3, I guess that's because those directories are mountpoints for filesystems that exist only in ram (devfs, procfs etc.).

That makes perfect sense. There is never a day that goes by when someone here doesn't teach me something. Thanks a lot.