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 at 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? > > Thanks, > Jamie > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you