On Sat, Sep 29, 2007, Jamie Lists wrote:
On 9/29/07, Luciano Rocha strange@nsk.no-ip.org wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:43:43AM -0700, Jamie Lists wrote:
Maybe this is a silly question, but i have a few million files i need to delete but i can't just reformat the volume.
Right now the fastest thing i can think of is
nice -20 rm -Rf /folder-i-want-to-delete
is there a better or faster way to do this?
No, but if you want to re-use the directory name, rename it before removing it: mv folder-i-want-to-delete _removed_folder rm -fr _removed_folder & keep working...
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Thanks for the tip.. We just have millions and millions of files and it's taking FOREVER haha!
I thought maybe there might be some other command i'm not aware of that would wipe this stuff out faster ya know.
If there's not much other data on the file system it might be faster to copy that off, make a new file system, then copy the data back.
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