On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, mark wrote:
This is among the things we need to do when a user leaves, and it's
a larger question than it sounds. Our Office has many servers, with
a good number of fileservers for projects, with large filesystems
(i.e. 10's of TB). Can anyone think of a way *other* than running
what's probably a many-hour long find / -user on all our systems,
which is really intensive, to find all the files own by a given
user?
Locate would be great, but from the man pages and what I can find
online, it only stores filenames and paths.
The only way I know is to keep an updated database of metadata, which
may be a security vulnerability depending on its accessibility and the
nature of your work. The Robinhood engine was written for this sort of
purpose:
https://github.com/cea-hpc/robinhood/wiki
That said, we use Robinhood on a single lustre filesystem. I don't
know how if you can set up a central instance across several file
servers or if each filesystem would need its own engine.
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