Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:02:16 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> Cc: Tyler Kellen <tyler@statuo.com> Subject: Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8 Message-ID: <20030827090215.GA77912@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <nospam-1061945619.46314@gw.gbch.net> References: <000001c36bef$da8d1260$a700000a@TYBOX> <3F4BAF61.A2D681B0@aueb.gr> <nospam-1061945619.46314@gw.gbch.net>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:53:38AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: >On 2003-08-26, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: >> You can use the system the way you intent to for two weeks, and then run >> >> find / -atime +2w -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f >> >> This command will delete all files that have not been accessed within >> the last two weeks. > >And it would also remove things like find and xargs and all the >other system binaries -- their atime does not get changed when >they are executed. Check your facts before giving this kind of >advice. Not to mention /kernel and the contents of /boot since the bootloader doesn't update atime either. The result may be more minimalist than Tyler intends. Peter
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