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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory hard disk problems Post 36872 by norsk hedensk on Friday 6th of June 2003 07:55:17 AM
Old 06-06-2003
probably not because those only utilize spare cpu cycles. actually ive found something that works, the kde program "kdirstat" takes a long time to go through and stat every file on disk. so that actually keeps things spinning. i realize im just gonna have to deal with this until i get a new drive. thanks anyway!
 

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STAT(3F)																  STAT(3F)

NAME
stat, lstat, fstat - get file status SYNOPSIS
integer function stat (name, statb) character*(*) name integer statb(12) integer function lstat (name, statb) character*(*) name integer statb(12) integer function fstat (lunit, statb) integer statb(12) DESCRIPTION
These routines return detailed information about a file. Stat and lstat return information about file name; fstat returns information about the file associated with fortran logical unit lunit. The order and meaning of the information returned in array statb is as described for the structure stat under stat(2). The ``spare'' values are not included. The value of either function will be zero if successful; an error code otherwise. FILES
/usr/lib/libU77.a SEE ALSO
stat(2), access(3F), perror(3F), time(3F) BUGS
Pathnames can be no longer than MAXPATHLEN as defined in <sys/param.h>. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 STAT(3F)
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