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Note that a root user can still do whatever he wants with the file.
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Re^4: perl binary size reducing
by rminner (Chaplain) on Nov 28, 2013 at 10:50 UTC
    As long as he executes 
    chattr -i file
    first. Without this even root can not modify/delete the file.
    I like to protect important files with the immutable flag. As such an accidental deletion/modification is very unlikely, since even rm -rf as root won't work on a file with an immutable flag set.

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