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Old 11-20-2012
How to find out when a file was created?
Hi All
I use solaris 9 and just realised my opt volume has grown to 99%. How can I find out which file was created on the opt volume for it to have grown to 99%? Which command should I use since I can't go through each individual file to look at the date the files were created.
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Old 11-20-2012
Try this procedure: Go to /opt: (cd /opt)
1. Run:
Code:
ls | xargs du -s | sort -r -n -k1 | head -10

2. Go to first directory in the output. If first entry (or one of the top big entries is a file, then check then it was created).
3. Repeat 1 and 2 until you find your file.
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Old 11-20-2012
Realize that if the file is growing, it's probably open and deleting it will not remove it from disk until the program is stopped. Find what's writing to it first, and find out how to deal with it.
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Old 11-20-2012
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Originally Posted by rahmantanko
Which command should I use since I can't go through each individual file to look at the date the files were created.
There is no way to do that on Solaris 9 as no file system on this OS is storing the file creation date. You can get the last modification time though if this is what you are really looking for.
 
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