Some hint :
- use a partition dedicated for that, that you can format every time you need to reset it. - try other filesystem. Some filesystem are faster for delete operations. - try to change the journaling during the delete operations. If you use ext3, I'm thinking about something like:
# mount -o remount,noload /data # rm -rf /data/* # mount -o remount /data
or
# mount -o remount,data=writeback /data # rm -rf /data/* # mount -o remount,data=ordered /data
On 9/29/07, Jamie Lists jamielist@gmail.com 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?
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