indexing symbolic links

Mag Gam magawake at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 16:04:17 UTC 2008


OH! Very nice solution. I guess I can listen to that. Thats a cool way
of doing it.



On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Levent Serinol <lserinol at gmail.com> wrote:
> you can use inotify and register it to notify you when a symbolic link
> created or unlinked. By this way you can put or remove names from your
> database automatically, with a small C,perl,etc. program :)
>
> 2008/6/22 Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com>:
>> Unfortunately, tracking space wasn't me goal. I want to keep track of my
>> symbolic links :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alex Bligh <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> --On 22 June 2008 09:12:26 -0400 Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At my university, we have physical storage in a filesystem, and we assign
>>>> professors and students space by doing a symbolic link. Basically I want
>>>> to keep track of physical storage with virtual/logical storage. Thats why
>>>> I ask :-)
>>>
>>> If you want to track space usage, I suggest you track it using quota
>>> or similar. "man quota" will give you a start.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>
>>
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