The following shows a command line session with lsattr command which helps in listing file attributes.
$lsattr -------------e-- ./A.txt -------------e-- ./beautyastudyin00rothuoft.pdf -------------e-- ./trueprint-5.4.tar.gz.sig -------------e-- ./sample -------------e-- ./scsh-common-0.6_0.6.7-8_all.deb -------------e-- ./photos -------------e-- ./beautifulwork-sorting -------------e-- ./Templates -------------e-- ./apache2_2.4.7-1_amd64.deb -------------e-- ./Pictures -------------e-- ./a.out -------------e-- ./sent -------------e-- ./Videos -------------e-- ./functions.txt~ -------------e-- ./Desktop -------------e-- ./books -------------e-- ./myapp.rb -------------e-- ./tmp -------------e-- ./ethstatus_0.4.3.dsc -------------e-- ./test.png -------------e-- ./1 -------------e-- ./lsattr1.txt -------------e-- ./physical.computing -------------e-- ./rubyhw.rb -------------e-- ./mysqlbackup -------------e-- ./gsl -------------e-- ./new.sass -------------e-- ./trueangle.org -------------e-- ./iso -------------e-- ./#tmps# -------------e-- ./wp-config.php -------------e-- ./resume-micro -------------e-- ./mathematics -------------e-- ./source -------------e-- ./resume-related.txt~ -------------e-- ./beautifulwork -------------e-- ./#temp# -------------e-- ./dap-3.8.tar.gz.sig -------------e-- ./DMD -------------e-- ./oo~ -------------e-- ./trueangle -------------e-- ./dap-3.9 -------------e-- ./functions.txt ----------I--e-- ./Downloads -------------e-- ./test.html ----------I--e-- ./National Geogrpahic compiled photos -------------e-- ./playground -------------e-- ./dap-3.7.tar.gz.sig -------------e-- ./Mail -------------e-- ./new.css -------------e-- ./join.png -------------e-- ./#workrecord.txt# -------------e-- ./debian-binary -------------e-- ./study.png -------------e-- ./test.synctex.gz -------------e-- ./processing -------------e-- ./wallphotos-old -------------e-- ./perl-new.txt -------------e-- ./r8169 -------------e-- ./wallphotos -------------e-- ./xf86-video-radeonhd -------------e-- ./scsh-0.6_0.6.7-8_i386.deb -------------e-- ./bw-wordpress -------------e-- ./beautifulwork-ethstatus -------------e-- ./work.png -------------e-- ./bw-theme -------------e-- ./beautifulwork.org-git -------------e-- ./apache -------------e-- ./Public -------------e-- ./colors -------------e-- ./ruby-related-bubblesort-related -------------e-- ./test.aux -------------e-- ./linux -------------e-- ./resume-related.txt -------------e-- ./ethstatus_0.4.3.tar.gz -------------e-- ./testanother.html -------------e-- ./data.tar.xz -------------e-- ./sdata -------------e-- ./dap-3.9.tar.gz -------------e-- ./beautifulwork-temp -------------e-- ./scsh_0.6.6.3_all.deb -------------e-- ./physics -------------e-- ./sshot.png -------------e-- ./control.tar.gz -------------e-- ./test.pdf -------------e-- ./viva_jaago_zara.mp3 -------------e-- ./test.tex -------------e-- ./Music -------------e-- ./Documents -------------e-- ./tem -------------e-- ./temp -------------e-- ./languagelearning -------------e-- ./test.log -------------e-- ./a.txt -------------e-- ./filename -------------e-- ./ahiliation.github.io -------------e-- ./solutions -------------e-- ./search.txt -------------e-- ./dap-3.0.tar.gz.sig -------------e-- ./dap -------------e-- ./publish.png -------------e-- ./dot-emacs -------------e-- ./#mission# -------------e-- ./test.html~ $
The 'e' attribute indicates that the file is using extents for mapping the blocks on disk. It may not be removed using chattr.
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