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. -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W