29 Sep
2007
29 Sep
'07
11:19 p.m.
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.
James