Git annex will keep track of where files are for you.
I use git-annex for syncing and backing up all of my data; would highly recommend if you’re looking for something that scales well, OP.
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.
A slightly more polished version might be a locate db per disk
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.
Not sure if it’s more suitable than what’s been suggested already, but I use Virtual Volumes View, an open source program to log/index my (disconnected) external drives and older hard drives.
I then keep the database/catalogue in a shared location I can check from my desktop/laptop.
Strange that anyone,didn’t recommend gui app fsearch https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
Save a list of all the files full paths, then run that file through fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
mlocate, plocate, slocate
Mount the drive, run
updatedb, then unmount the db when that finishes. Then use thelocatecommand.You could maybe do some tricks with one of the variations of locate - such as mlocate or locate. There are options for the updatedb to index specific paths and store in the specified database. If you store a separate db per drive, a bit of scripting to loop through all DBs would let you search them all.
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The hard drive that is disconnected
That’s not very helpful lol
I think they just dropped this
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The hard drive that is disconnected
The Hard Drive That Is Disconnected
Not being facetious but you could write your own tool. It might take a minute at first but then it would be yours and be totes worth it.
