>
> Hello,
>
> We've got a couple of ancient directory trees (going back to the early eighties)
> that have accumulated a lot of garbage over the years.
> But nobody is sure which files are actually _used_ and which can be safely
> deleted.
>
> The following patch lets me do the following: all filenames are prefixed with
> .~ , and after an unsuccesful lookup a file will be automagically restored if
> it's actually used. In this way we can see which files have been used and
> which haven't.
>
this is no kernel issue.
please use `find -atime' and -mtime/-ctime to locate such files...
Harald
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