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On Thursday 22 September 2005 15:33, Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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> Besides cron jobs and associated executables, there's files which are |
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> accessed intermittently and written/read from even more sparsely. |
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> Unless you somehow log the file paths for all such interactions how |
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> will you ever know what to delete and what not? I guess you can keep |
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> backups and experiment so that you don't find out something's missing |
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> the hard way, next time you decide to reboot. |
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It's way easier to mount the partition with "atime" option to track |
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every file access time. |
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Search for -atime -anewer and similar "find" options. |
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Anyway this kind of approach can lead to instabilities, when it comes |
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the moment your pc enters a state it never entered before and need a |
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file deleted for scarce usage... |
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Double check what to delete, and leave everything unknown in its |
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place :-) |
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Just my 2cts |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST |
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2005 |
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One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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