I routinely work on small linux boxes that basically run off of a small flashcard as the hard drive. We use these for out client-side network monitoring boxes. The problem with these is they can very quickly run out of drive space, if there is anything being written to the drive at all.
Here’s a very useful command that can be ran from the command line. This will give you a list, starting from your current directory, of files and their modification dates in descending order. So anything recently modified will be at the bottom of the list. Comes in quite handy.
find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n' | sort


