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Re: Browsing offline filesystems



On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:11:27PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > $ find <specific directory>   > filelist.txt
> >
> > like
> >
> > $ find ~/hugeDirectory/   > filelist.txt
> >
> >
> > generates you a textfile with a list of all files, directories (and special
> > files). Should be enough. To search, use less or grep. vi could block your
> > system for some minutes.
> >
> > I am not aware of some caching filesystem, which only "caches" the directory
> > structure, without the files content.
> >
> 
> Thanks, Benjamin. This got me going on a shell script that uses find,
> mkdir, and touch to recreate the file system.

You may want to use:

$ ls -laR
$ tree -a


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