[lsattr flag] t [chattr option] +t to set -t to clear [Semantics and rationale] For those filesystems which support tail-merging, a file with the t attribute will not have a partial block fragment at the end of the file merged with other files. This is necessary for applications such as LILO which read the filesystem directly, and which don't understand tail-merged files. [Attribute] 
No tail-merging