On 06/10/08 05:43, Mag Gam wrote:
> Is it possible to index all symbolic links (source and destination) of a
> filesystem? For example, in my university we have a project where
> professors use vast amount of disk space -- over 10 TB a month. We
> provide the professors a mount point, /barXX and export that mount
> point. The professor then symbolic links that filesystem like, ln -s
> /nfsexport/barXX June10_data. I would like to keep track of these
> symbolic links. Is there a good method for this? Is there a feature in
> ext3 which will let me keep track of these symbolic links. I can always
> do a find /fs and compare inode info, but that would just take too long...
A relatively simple python or Perl script would do the trick.