I have a 40GB HDD mounted as /home. It is used for holding emails for about 100+ users. One of the occasional tasks I do with this is to prune it out of unwanted emails, like chain letters.
I usually run something like: find -size +500k -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H "search string" to search the Maildir mailboxes for a certain subject. The disk is about 98% full, and running the about line takes time for one search. I was wondering if there's a better way to search. Or if I should be using a different fs that would make searches faster. Btw, I'm using the xfs filesystem. --- mike t.
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