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CoderSupreme@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml ·
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Which tool could I use to scan all drives and find where I have a file even when the drives are disconnected?

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Which tool could I use to scan all drives and find where I have a file even when the drives are disconnected?

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    You could make a text file of all the directories/files, name it according to the drive name, and then you could search the text files or just scroll through it.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23808798/how-can-i-export-a-recursive-directory-file-listing-to-a-text-file-in-linux-ba

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      A slightly more polished version might be a locate db per disk

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        This. By default, the locate command does not check whether the files found in the database still exist, so you could use it even if the indexed filesystem or path is offline.

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