deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 Koen de Wijs wrote: I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I'd tend to define 'full' as perhaps 8GB in that situation, and likely protect at least some

deleting automatically the oldest file from a harddisk

Hello everybody, I have a ftp -server. I use a harddisk of 9 Gb for the ftp-directory. This isn't very big so I want to throw away the oldest file if the disc is full. I can write a cronjob that checks every minute. But isn't there another solution; Can't I just write a C program that