If you forgot to do test with the -nv switch like i did, you might want to 'unhashify' some files.. This preserved the file attributes and symlinks for me.. ::# lsattr -R 2> /dev/null | grep-- '----i------t-' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | awk '{system("echo unhashifying "$0"&&cp -a \""$0"\" \""$0".tmp.\" && mv -f \""$0".tmp.\" \""$0"\" ")}' |