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Author: sinck@ugive.comsinckugive.com
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Subject: atimes
\_ Another use of atime is disk grooming. Rather
\_ than doing a BOFHish
What's wrong with that?

\_ rm -rf /home/john
\_
\_ to free up disk space, you could do
\_
\_ find /home/john -type f -atime +365 -exec rm -f {} \;
\_
\_ If you ain't accessed it in over a year, you
\_ ain't gonna miss it.

A true BOFH would disable atime "for performance reasons" and then a
year later run the command above. "You clearly hadn't accessed the
file in over a year, the system *knows*."

:-)

David