On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:24:23 +0200 "JF Straeten" <jfstraeten@scarlet.be> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:01:12PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: > > >>> # delete hashed files orphaned by all vservers > >>> find /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash/00/ -type f -links 1 > >>> -exec rm -f {} \; > > [...] > > >> Uh, sorry to be brain-damaged, but which directory do you mean? > >> /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash/00/ ? > >> > >> Can you cut& paste the exact rm command you use? > > find /srv/vservers/.hash -type f -links 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm > > > > He did. The find command execs 'rm -f' on all the files it finds > > that have a hard link count of 1. Or am I misunderstanding your > > question? > > Yes, but it should be without the trailing "00/" part, isn't it ? on debian lenny the vservers hash directory symlink is "00". i don't know if that is debian-specific or upstream util-vserver's convention; i'm too lazy to investigate (but maybe daniel won't be and will quickly chime in if he knows ;-). the great flower page (http://www.nongnu.org/util-vserver/doc/conf/configuration.html) only specifies "id -> ...". and i would not execute that find command on /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash/ (without the trailing "00/") because that'll delete your "method" file and any other in that directory (as they probably are not hardlinked anywhere and therefor have a link count of 1) and won't follow the symlink to the actual hash directory. so it'll do what you didn't want and nothing of what you did want. :-) and yes, i could have referenced "/srv/vservers/.hash" or "/var/lib/vservers/.hash", but that would have been wrong for my own system: "/home/vservers/.hash". i figured it was best to reference /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash because that's *the* answer as given by the authoritative documentation (ie great flower page), but not knowing how to specifically reference the symlink to the hash directory, i fell back to my specific system (ie "00"). last night i executed that exact command i gave (since this thread reminded me to do it), so i know it works, at least for my filesystem layout. :-D corey -- undefined@pobox.com > > A+ > > -- > > JFS. >