Clean up Your Filesystems With fslint | Linux Today

Clean up Your Filesystems With fslint

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 7, 2008

“The main window of fslint is shown below. The top part of the
window lets you restrict what paths are searched and specify
whether fslint will recurse into those directories. The Advanced
search parameters tab lets you set paths to exclude as well as any
extra parameters to pass directly to the invocation of the find
command. By default /tmp, .svn, CVS, .git, /dev, /sys, and /proc
are included in the list of paths to be ignored.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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