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28.\" Developed by the TrustedBSD Project.
29.\" Support for file system extended attribute.
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31.Dd March 30, 2000
32.Dt EXTATTRCTL 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm extattrctl
36.Nd manage UFS1 extended attributes
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Cm start
40.Ar path
41.Nm
42.Cm stop
43.Ar path
44.Nm
45.Cm initattr
46.Op Fl f
47.Op Fl p Ar path
48.Ar attrsize
49.Ar attrfile
50.Nm
51.Cm showattr
52.Ar attrfile
53.Nm
54.Cm enable
55.Ar path
56.Ar attrnamespace
57.Ar attrname
58.Ar attrfile
59.Nm
60.Cm disable
61.Ar path
62.Ar attrnamespace
63.Ar attrname
64.Sh DESCRIPTION
65The
66.Nm
67utility
68is the management utility for extended attributes over the UFS1 file system.
69It allows the starting and stopping of extended attributes on a file system,
70as well as initialization of attribute backing files, and enabling and
71disabling of specific extended attributes on a file system.
72.Pp
73The first argument on the command line indicates the operation to be
74performed.
75Operation must be one of the following:
76.Bl -tag -width indent
77.It Cm start Ar path
78Start extended attribute support on the file system named using
79.Ar path .
80The file system must be an UFS1 file system, and the UFS_EXTATTR kernel
81option must have been enabled.
82.It Cm stop Ar path
83Stop extended attribute support on the file system named using
84.Ar path .
85Extended attribute support must previously have been started.
86.It Xo
87.Cm initattr
88.Op Fl f
89.Op Fl p Ar path
90.Ar attrsize attrfile
91.Xc
92Create and initialize a file to use as an attribute backing file.
93You must specify a maximum per-inode size for the attribute in bytes in
94.Ar attrsize ,
95as well as the file where the attribute will be stored, using
96.Ar attrfile .
97.Pp
98The
99.Fl f
100argument may be used to indicate that it is alright to overwrite an
101existing attribute backing file; otherwise, if the target file exists,
102an error will be returned.
103.Pp
104The
105.Fl p Ar path
106argument may be used to preallocate space for all attributes rather than
107relying on sparse files to conserve space.
108This has the advantage of guaranteeing that space will be available
109for attributes when they are written, preventing low disk space conditions
110from denying attribute service.
111.Pp
112This file should not exist before running
113.Cm initattr .
114.It Cm showattr Ar attrfile
115Show the attribute header values in the attribute file named by
116.Ar attrfile .
117.It Cm enable Ar path attrnamespace attrname attrfile
118Enable an attribute named
119.Ar attrname
120in the namespace
121.Ar attrnamespace
122on the file system identified using
123.Ar path ,
124and backed by initialized attribute file
125.Ar attrfile .
126Available namespaces are "user" and "system".
127The backing file must have been initialized using
128.Cm initattr
129before its first use.
130Attributes must have been started on the file system prior to the
131enabling of any attributes.
132.It Cm disable Ar path attrnamespace attrname
133Disable the attributed named
134.Ar attrname
135in namespace
136.Ar attrnamespace
137on the file system identified by
138.Ar path .
139Available namespaces are "user" and "system".
140The file system must have attributes started on it, and the attribute
141most have been enabled using
142.Cm enable .
143.El
144.Sh EXAMPLES
145.Dl extattrctl start /
146.Pp
147Start extended attributes on the root file system.
148.Pp
149.Dl extattrctl initattr 17 /.attribute/system/md5
150.Pp
151Create an attribute backing file in /.attribute/system/md5, and set the maximum
152size of each attribute to 17 bytes, with a sparse file used for storing
153the attributes.
154.Pp
155.Dl extattrctl enable / system md5 /.attribute/system/md5
156.Pp
157Enable an attribute named md5 on the root file system, backed from the file
158/.attribute/system/md5.
159.Pp
160.Dl extattrctl disable / md5
161.Pp
162Disable the attribute named md5 on the root file system.
163.Pp
164.Dl extattrctl stop /
165.Pp
166Stop extended attributes on the root file system.
167.Sh SEE ALSO
168.Xr ffs 4 ,
169.Xr getextattr 8 ,
170.Xr setextattr 8 ,
171.Xr extattr 9
172.Sh HISTORY
173Extended attribute support was developed as part of the TrustedBSD Project,
174and introduced in
175.Fx 5.0 .
176It was developed to support security extensions requiring additional labels
177to be associated with each file or directory.
178.Sh AUTHORS
179.An Robert N M Watson
180