Extended file attributes: Difference between revisions

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but [[ext2]]/[[ext3|3]]/[[ext4|4]] and [[btrfs]] impose much smaller limits, requiring all the attributes (names and values) of one file to fit in one "filesystem block" (usually 4 KiB).

Extended attributes can be accessed and modified using the <code>attr</code>, <code>getfattr</code> and <code>setfattr</code> commands from the <code>attr</code> package on most distributions.<ref>{{cite web

| title=Commands for Manipulating Filesystem Extended Attributes

| url=https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/

| website=[[GNU Savannah]]

| accessdate=2017-07-11}}</ref> onThe mostAPIs distributionsare called {{code|getxattr}} and {{code|setxattr}}.

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