Chris Davies wrote:
The find statement thus becomes
find $(readlink -f "$F") -atime -180
Okay, I got the exact same result.
If you're finding that everything is "in use" then at this stage it's probable that you've made a filesystem backup with tar or cpio, which obviously reads every single file, unfortunately making atime useless.
I use dump and restore test (I know some files will change and be inconsistent, but that is okay). I plan to use lvm snapshots soon to make sure everything is 100% consistent.
Don't use tar or cpio for backups.I also use rsync for backups to other areas and remotely, so that might update atimes? I don't think it should.
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