~/enormousfiles
Oct. 22nd, 2014 04:12 amSomething clever I thought of today:
So I've got this enormous file on my hard drive -- about 35 GB. While it's enormous, it's not particularly important; I haven't deleted it only because there's no need to. But it's in a directory with lots of other important stuff; actually, it's in a subdirectory of a directory with lots of important stuff. So when I'm doing backups, it's a pain, because I have to go in and copy everything in this directory except this one file in a subdirectory -- the file isn't important enough to be worth slowing down my backups for.
Solution I thought of today: make a new directory, ~/enormousfiles, put the file in there, and put a symlink to it in the original directory. Yay!
-Harry
So I've got this enormous file on my hard drive -- about 35 GB. While it's enormous, it's not particularly important; I haven't deleted it only because there's no need to. But it's in a directory with lots of other important stuff; actually, it's in a subdirectory of a directory with lots of important stuff. So when I'm doing backups, it's a pain, because I have to go in and copy everything in this directory except this one file in a subdirectory -- the file isn't important enough to be worth slowing down my backups for.
Solution I thought of today: make a new directory, ~/enormousfiles, put the file in there, and put a symlink to it in the original directory. Yay!
-Harry
