mv folder-to-be-deleted /dev/null ? Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: "Jamie Lists" <jamielist at gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:19:12 To:"CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Silly question - Anything faster than rm? On 9/29/07, Luciano Rocha <strange at 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... > > -- 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos