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