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Good Morning everyone and Merry Christmas, I'm currently running Ubuntu Server 7.10 with an attached SCSI 16Bay RAID Array. The RAID is currently configured for RAID5 and fully populated for a file storage area of 11.25TB's. I've partitioned the 11.25TB's into 5 - 2TB volumes and 1 - 650GB Volume and formated them all as ext3. Everything is working fine and the setup was painless. Here is my problem: As I begin to fill these volumes with folders and files, Is there a content management system or a something else that I can use to keep track of which ext3 volume a certain folder or file is located on? I found myself spending a lot of time searching these volumes for a specific folder and/or file. Or maybe a script to that can be executed across all the volumes and list and / or sort the folders by name, etc. Also, I would want this content manager to be able to notify or alert of any duplicate folders existing on these 6 volumes. Any suggestion would be much appreciated. With Thanks, Gunther

Happy New year everyone, Over the course of the holidays, I've developed this script to get some of my issues solved. I'm not great at script writing as you can tell from the code below. Try not to laugh too much :) Maybe a real programmer could take a look at my code and tweak it. It's a work in progress. At this point the script is functional for my needs, but any help or idea's would be appreciated. I also have a cron job to execute 'updatedb' every couple of hours. With Many Thanks Gunther :) ---------------------------------------------------- #! /bin/sh clear echo echo " RAID ARRAY Search & Directory Listing" echo " -------------------------------------" A=x until [ "$selection" = "$A" ]; do echo echo "Choose one of the following options:" echo echo "1 - Search for a Directory Name" echo "2 - Find Duplicate Directory Names" echo "3 - List All Directories" echo "x - Exit" echo read selection searchsum() { find /media/* -iname "$dir_name" | sort | sort -n; } searchresult(){ ls /media/* | egrep -v '~d' > results.txt; SUCCESS=0 word=$dir_name filename=results.txt grep -q "$word" "$filename" if [ $? -eq $SUCCESS ] then echo "The Directory named, $word is found:" else echo "The Dicectory named, $word is NOT found:" fi rm results.txt; } duplicate() { ls /media/* | egrep -v '~d' > duplicate.txt; cat duplicate.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > dupoutput.txt; cat dupoutput.txt; rm duplicate.txt; } saveoutput() { if [ "$output" = "y" ] then mv dupoutput.txt /tmp/dupoutput.txt echo "Output File Saved to /tmp/dupoutput.txt" else rm dupoutput.txt fi } dirlist() { find /media/* -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | sort | sort n > RAID_Directory.txt; #ls /media/* | egrep -v '~d' > RAID_Directory.txt; cat RAID_Directory.txt; } saveresults() { if [ "$saveresults" = "y" ] then mv RAID_Directory.txt /tmp/RAID_Directory.txt echo "Output File Saved to /tmp/RAID_Directory.txt" else rm RAID_Directory.txt echo "Output File deleted" fi } case "$selection" in "1" ) echo echo -e "Please enter the Directory Name:" read dir_name echo searchresult echo echo "Search Summary:" echo "---------------" searchsum echo ;; "2" ) echo echo "Duplicate Directories:" echo "----------------------" duplicate echo echo "Save Output File to Disk? y / n " read output saveoutput echo ;; "3" ) echo echo "RAID ARRAY Directories:" echo "-----------------------" dirlist echo echo "Save Output File to Disk? y / n " read saveresults saveresults echo ;; "x" ) echo echo -e "Exit" echo exit 0 ;; esac done

You can look at trackerd http://linux.die.net/man/1/trackerd and rsync for indexing and managing your filesystem

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